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Cairns Slideshow
Cairns
Travel Blogs from Cairns, Australia
Diving the Great Barrier Reef
This is a top pick! ... four the nest (that was pretty exhausting) and three on the final day. I started my course on a Saturday, after spending Friday in Cairns catching up with my friend Laurel and seeing the town. I like Cairns a lot and am glad to be spending a least ...
Tip Top!
This is a top pick! ... you into trouble. Hmmmm....! Abstract: Cape York, the last big trip the 3 of us would take. 3000km round trip to Australia's northern most tip, including creek crossings with eroded banks, 1000's of Kms of corrugations and an average speed of ...
Great Barrier Reef dive overdrive!
This is a top pick! ... streams of motorcycles! To our Asian-attuned senses, it was all so clean, so organised, so utterly civilised... Ah! Cairns itself is a pleasant little city. Its main drawcard is the wonderful waterfront prominade and park, with huge public swimming ...
Mission Accomplished! Cairns at Last!
This is a top pick! ... the Great Wall of China, its the only living thing visible from space and it spans 2000kms along the east coast of Australia. We finished our day off with a beer and fish n chips in the nightmarket...tommorow Airlie and Whitsundays Hugs ...
The Desert Venturer
This is a top pick! ... poor marsupial. The snake was too full to move and just hissed at us while we happily snapped photos. After stopping at Australia's smallest bar we rolled into Wirriyerna Station for the night. Me, Brian, the Swiss couple and Bryony from York were ...
Off to the Tropical North
This is a top pick! ... streets are lined with restaurants with people trying to coax you inside. But it is so weird walking down a street in Australia where all the shop signs are in Japanese first followed by small English underneath! Shops wise apparently all Japanese want ...
Job! at last! i got a call from telequip ...
This is a top pick! ... to Susie who left our house this week to go to Alice Springs have a great trip and see you when you get back to Cairns! Hope everyone else is well and enjoying the summer! (I know I am, every time i write an entry Liverpool have won another trophy! ...
End of the line for the east coast
This is a top pick! ... of the world. We made a quick stop in the town of Tully as well, which prides itself on being the wettest point in Australia and has even built a giant "golden gumboot" to boast about its status. I'm not sure that's something I'd choose to brag about, ...
Ok so it is not as easy to get work as i ...
This is a top pick! ... ) hope you enjoy catching up with the travelogue sorry it has taken this long! So for now i will continue the job hunt and anyone who has been to Cairns before (Daz) and has any tips on good jobs, get in touch! I need all the help i can get! AB ...
The Great Barrier Reef
This is a top pick! We managed to get to Cairns eventually, thank God, bypassing all the disaster areas by simply flying over them. It was hot there and the remnants of the cyclone were still covering the sky with cloud and soaking us with rain. We stayed in a cute but ...
Horseriding and a day in Kuranda
This is a top pick! ... the story of the Tjapukai people. The History theatre showed how badly the Aboriginal people were treated when white settlers came to Australia and actually made me feel ashamed to be English, but it was a really good couple of hours spent to actually ...
Hot Air Ballooning
This is a top pick! ... be. Landing can sometimes be a bit bumpy but ours was ok. After the landing it was time to help with packing up the balloon, then a short drive to our champagne breakfast. After stuffing our faces with food, it was back to Cairns for a well earned ...
Northern Exposure
This is a top pick! ... on the way back to Cairns when a cassowary appeared in the trees just off the road. Monday 23rd February The Tjapukai Centre near Cairns is really cool. It starts off with the local aboriginal tribes telling of the story of creation then goes on to ...
Reflections of Oz
This is a top pick! ... and pubs. There is also a casino, and a lagoon, similar to Airlie Beach's lagoon. Well it is now our last day in Cairns and Australia and there are a few things that are worth knowing about before you visit Oz. So here is our A to Z of Australia... ...
Finding Nemo backwards is Omen
This is a top pick! Cairns is a great beach town in Northeast Australia. I wasn't sure what to expect but it was perfect. After I landed, I headed to a hostel that I booked for thirty-five dollars a night. The hostel is located across the street from the beach and right in ...
Ace Ventura of the Sea
This is a top pick! Walked into town again this morning for a gander around being overtaken by a motorized skateboard along the way (always wanted one of them when I was younger). Ended up looking around the marina watching a few helicopters come and go for those paying ...
To the Tropical North
This is a top pick! ... emu and a turkey but few in numbers getting it's face on a few road signs warning against what we almost did. Arriving in Cairns with no where booked I chose the place with a free courtesy bus to the hostel which was needed given the distance from the ...
Still here still working (not hard but ...
This is a top pick! ... time in Marbella Alison Lowry, sorry for making you jealous with the tales of the Woolshed and all other Bars in Cairns! :-) Jordan, Good luck starting Nursery on Monday XX Uncle Andrew Neil, Happy 30th....welcome to the club, just wait for ...
Carefree Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef
This is a top pick! ... be featured on Travelpod.com. There's me, right there on Travelpod.com's homepage. I'm really pleased. Thank you Travelpod! Back to Cairns, where I am right now. I love this town. Its small(ish), has a great atmosphere and it's location, fronting the ...
Great Barrier Reef Style in Cairns..its Cans Mate!
This is a top pick! We landed late at night in Cairns, the major city in Queensland state and finally felt the heat of Australia! Despite being mid winter, Cairns was absolutely gorgeous!! Nice and hot and sunny…ahhhhh…We had nowhere to stay so we just ...
Diving in Cairns
This is a top pick! I have just got off a 3 day diving expedition on the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns. We lived aboard an old sail boat for for the duration. This was one of my main reasons for coming up here and I have to say was totally awesome. Despite problems with ...
Scuba
This is a top pick! Just some underwater shots of the Great Barrier Reef from my 2 scuba dives ...
More 'firsts' in "No Network Coverage" country
This is a top pick! ... awesome! Anyway, that was my camping trip. It was an eye-opener for me in many ways and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I left Cairns last Wednesday for Sydney where I am right now. Frits arrived yesterday (yippee!) and we'll be travelling together for the ...
27th - lazy day! you wouldn't believe how ...
This is a top pick! ... but we were already surrounded by fish. 10-15m from the boat and the wall of coral started and the variety of fish were amazing. Australia (as well as loads of bugs) has the most colourful fish and birds I've ever seen and you start to wonder if they ...
Meeting up with Borak
This is a top pick! ... a call because I may already be there." I got an email from him that said I'm not going to make it to SE Asia, but I will be in Australia if you want to come and meet me. I was in Sydney at the time. So for the last month, I've been working my way up ...
I found Nemo
This is a top pick! The first 4 days in Cairns we had booked a diving course with Cairns Diving Centre as part of our East Coast Package. We'd actually got a good deal where we were living on the boat for the 3rd night. So we were picked up at 9am on Monday, a bit nervous ...
Cairns is not as bad as everyone makes out! ...
This is a top pick! ... few days in Cairns were spent looking around and a drive to Port Douglas, we described it as the Lytham St Annes to Cairns' Blackpool. A bit sleepy but very pretty, we stopped of at the most luxurious beach and dreamt of the rain of the Manchester! ...
Coast to Coast to Coast
This is a top pick! ... we fed the 'wild' possums which visited their backgarden everynight. It really couldn't have been a better start to our trip in Australia. Adelaide itself is a really cool city, very relaxed and friendly with wide streets, lots of good pubs and a lovely ...
The good people at travelpod have given me ...
This is a top pick! The good people at Travelpod have given me another 5mg space for photo's so here goes , enjoy! p.s. Date set for departure from Cairns! 3rd November, as Mandy , Sophie, and I have been loaned a camper van to drive to Brisbane for a friend so we felt ...
Wet, Wet Queensland
This is a top pick! ... if a troop of monkeys was holding a disorganized debate. Even through the haze of half sleep we realized that there are no monkeys in Australia and, as I opened the door to yell at them to SHUT UP, a mere 4 Kookaburras flew off. What a racket they make; ...