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Cairns Slideshow
Cairns
Travel Blogs from Cairns, Australia
Being A Tourist - Day 3
... to kill before we were picked up to go horseriding so on the advice of a random Frenchman clutching a shingleback lizard we headed to Australia Venom Zoo where we parted with $15 each to go and look at some poisonous stuff. We were shown around ...
Last Station/Endstation Cairns
... were not going to be able to see Uluru (Ayers Rock). We were both very disappointed but our funds just weren't going to cover it as well as our plans for New Zealand. The positive side to this decision is that we now have to come back to Australia one ...
More chillaxing to the max!
... we got into the taxi at 1am that it could be a problem. (had something to do with south pacific politics and cairns being neutral ground!) this was obviously concerning to us both but fortunately when we arrived it was safe with nobody around and so ...
Jungle Boogie & Reef Encounters of Ze Awesome Kind
... ensuite.....luxury! Shame I had to spend the day washing and drying the entire contents of my soggy wardrobe. Cairns itself really wasn't what I expected and I was pleased to get out of there after a couple of days to the serenity ...
Here in Cairns
... with the drink i swear!! We left the next morning - a bit worse for wear - and drove a solid 10 hours in the day to get to Cairns which is where we are now. Our plan was to work here for a bit but the job prospect here is not good so we have planned to ...
Day 67 Ballooning Canceled
We got up at 3am this morning to go Ballooning. I wore my Around the World in 80 Days T-shirt. The ride through the rain forest and into the bush farmlands to Mareeba was an hour long. We didn't see any kangaroos or other animals - or should I say I ...
Cape Tribulation
... spent ages uploading all my Red Centre Photo's - last few days have been awesome, travelled across the desert from Alice Springs to Cairns - 800km and not one town, village or sign of civilisation. Brilliant!! Took 3 days, but we stopped at night, and ...
More weather extremes!
... we could instantly feel the drop in temperature at 32 degrees C (yes that's right, 32 degrees felt cool)! However, as Cairns lies along the Tropic of Capricorn, it was muggy and humid - yet another weather extreme to acclimatise to! Unfortunately, ...
Cairns
... thought it might be. Anyway, while looking around, I did manage to find some very nice opal jewelry for which Australia is famous. The city is a very beautiful port and is apparently a popular vacation destination. Near the ship ...
Cairns, Australia
I have had a week in Cairns - decided I needed time to relax after a hectic 3 weeks! I have spent quite a bit of time chilling out down at the esplanade, and swimming in the massive lagoon. I have also done a couple of trips: Did a day trip to ...
An awesome time on the reef - just so much fun
I know almost all of my entries have mentioned me having a fantastic time, and I really wish I could expand my vocabulary so that I'd have new words to use to describe my experiences. The scuba diving trip I took was just absolutely amazing, one of the ...
Anything you Cairn do
It's hard for an English person to get used to the size of Australia. To fly to Cairns from Sydney took us two and a half hours. If you spent that long in a plane in the UK you'd probably overshoot both ends entirely. As luck would have it, Cairns is the ...
Goodbye Australia!
... : Fraser Island Best Chocolate they don't have at home: Cookies and Cream Kit-Kat chunky, yummy Backpackers' song of choice in australia: MGMT - Kids Best football match I got up for in the middle of the night: Chelsea 4 - 4 Liverpool Best ...
SKY DIVING
Well ive been in Cairns now for 7 days, my Dad has arrived, i picked him up in "ROXY" on Monday morning. He liked the Van !!! thought it was funny, but nearly chose to get to the city in a taxi and not in the van!!! Dont know why..? I havent done much ...
Magnetic + The Reef
... a couple of nights on the island, I boarded the bus once more to head north towards my final East Coast destination of Cairns. Again I would only have a couple of days here, and arriving late at night unfortunately meant having to take the most expensive ...
Ry Gets Lucky!
... morning people who actually have some customer service skills unlike most Australian people. They fix the card and away we leave to Cairns central for another funfilled day. So, we get down to getting some chores done like sending stuff home that is ...
Bathing at the poolside in 36 deg heat
G'day G'day all and what a beautiful morning it is. It's 8.00am, the sun is shining, the birds, or maybe the bats are tweeting and I'm laying in bed about to read followed by Skyping 6, humm maybe I should do that first and blog last :-) Yes that is what ...
Back to the Coast!
... arriving in Cairns were incredible too and SO green. Stopped off at a few waterfalls on our way – Milstream Waterfall (Australia's widest waterfall!), Pepina Falls & Millaa Millaa Falls. Going to spend the next couple of days chilling in Cairns ...
Islands and coral
... had an arguement with the manager the next day and changed to a quieter room. The one great thing we did do from Brisbane, was go to Australia Zoo, the Zoo of Steve Irwin, and we had a great day. It has to be one of the best zoo's i've ever been ...
Sun, pool, great comany and wine!! Heaven
... styles and people in general differ to home. It was great being able to experience and appreciate day to day 'real' working life in Australia that I know I wouldn’t have got to see if i was at the usual tourist hot spots. The dance school is the ...
On the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef
... ! The next day Ben left for the ship, and I went to Kurande, a small hippie town in the rainforest just outside Cairns. I took the skyrail there, a gondola that takes all the way over the canopy of the rainforest. Kuranda is very touristy maybe ...
Fra Jucy crib til Hostel
Skrevet av Kaya Nå er det ikke lenge til vi reiser fra Australia, og av den grunn så leverte vi tilbake Jucy Criben idag. Vi stod opp klokken 7.30 for å gjøre den klar til levering. Når vi hadde fått sagt hade til bilen vgikk vi tilbake til ...
La maldiction pesant sur cairns
... de didgeridoos, des verres gratuit et plein de trucs un peu partout sur la côte est. -Et finalement nos 2 dernières nuits à Cairns dans la même chambre ou nous sommes depuis un peu plus de 2 semaines. Tout cela, d'une valeur d'environ ...
i am a wimp
... scared of the water, but i was really hoping i would get over that fear once i got to cairns. cairns is a tiny little city in north australia, and of course the only reason people come here is to go to the great barrier reef! i have wanted to check ...
Great Barrier Reef
Folks, there is something I have to tell you. There is another world to be discovered, an alien world full of wonders, dangers and mysteries. I'm not talking about going to outer space, but to the outer reef. My Christmas present to myself was this 4 day ...
A Spending Tour of Cairns!
... myself an early birthday present of a gorgeous (and very affordable) opal set in a silver pendant. I had to get one while I was in Australia, and since it's almost October (opal month), I thought it was a good time! Hair - I also went to the salon and got ...
The Great Barrier Reef
... yum!! We then relaxed on the nets for a while before going back out for more snorkeling on the reef. On the return back to Cairns nearly everyone on the boat had a sleep before we were woken up for cheese, wine and fresh tropical fruits. It was a ...
Land, sea, air, blood orgasms
... what a place to do it. With a tear in my eye, I must leave you now, dear. An Inadequately Short Summary of Australia Truly vast. Truly beautiful. Truly savage. Savagely beautiful. Savagely, vastly, beautifully true. Living in Australia is like being in a ...
Chillling in Cairns
Het heeft even geduurd maar daar zijn we weer. Ik zal kijken hoe ver ik kom met het bijwerken van mij reisverslag want er is erg veel gebeurd de laatse weken. We hebben net onze duikcursus afgerond en zijn nu Certified open Water Divers. Om dat te vieren ...
End of the East Coast voyage
... that could tear you apart with its claws, fed some kangaroos bread and draped a few snakes around our necks. Excellent! Just outside Cairns we stopped at the A.J. Hackett's bungy centre. Having no desire to do another bungy, both myself and Ben did the ...