Finally, we arrived in Cairns on Friday afternoon and greeted by the sun. Although we were slightly unsure if we'd arrived at the right destination. Andrew and Jillian were already quibbling over the prononciation "Curns" or "Caaaairns" - work it out for yourselves who said what! :-) However, the bloody Aussies had to come in and add confusion b...

Cairns Cairns is de meest noordelijke stad aan de oostkust. Het strand van Cairns is een vijtftig meter brede strook modder tussen de kant en het water, onaantrekkelijk voor het oog, onbegaanbaar vanwege krokodillen. De stad zelf ontloopt het strand niet veel in aantrekkelijkheid: oninteressant, ongezellig en lelijk. Om er toch een beetje leven ...

Cairns Cairns is de meest noordelijke stad aan de oostkust. Het strand van Cairns is een vijtftig meter brede strook modder tussen de kant en het water, onaantrekkelijk voor het oog, onbegaanbaar vanwege krokodillen. De stad zelf ontloopt het strand niet veel in aantrekkelijkheid: oninteressant, ongezellig en lelijk. Om er toch een beetje leven ...

Entry 16 of a trip titled: RTW 2003

RTW 2003

Entry 4 of a trip titled: Back to Australia and beyond... the art of delaying adulthood!!

Hello everybody, thankyou for taking a passing interest in my globe trotting activities! I will try to only write interesting things, and not moan too much, even when I'm sleep deprived and living on or below the poverty line! See you all soon(ish) Liz xxx

Okalie dockalie, australia, love it, quick description of some of the places i visited, here goes............. sidney-brrr cold but suppa cool city, full of super cool everything, Salamander bay- just stunning, check out the tomaree heads- beautiful indeedy, Byron bay- one of my favourite places, learnt to surf, chilled isnt the word, say no mor...

Hey folks, Got up a 6am - nearly missed the bus (the last one). Got into Cairns at 2pm. We couldn't get the YHA (booked out) so we checked into the Calypso Inn - **** (there was a cat sitting on the worktop in the kitchen - eeuugghh). Had a look about town - cool place. Also checked ourselves into the YHA for the following 2 nights. Shopped arou...

On the way to the airport today we met a couple from England. They had been traveling since February. We kept running into them and found out eventually that they were on the same flight as we were. We chatted for a bit and found out that they are both retired teachers! It was great to meet them! We made it to Cairns with no trouble at all. It's...

Compared to the last 2 days, today was a lie-in! Before collecting our bags together, Nikki & Natalie walked up to an Ayers Rock lookout point to take some final photos of the "Big Red Rock". Whilst waiting for the airport curtosy bus Paul & Craig played pool. Bare in mind that Craig plays in Division 1 of both his local Winter and Summe...

Throughout the night Paul kept turning off the air con as he was cold, then on again as he got hot. Apparently, Natalie woke up freezing at one point, grabbing extra blankets! Craig and Nikki slept on obliviously! The overnight rain cleared to leave another scorching day. As mentioned, the location of the resort was not in our favour. Thinking w...

We arrived in Perth 5 days ago and headed straight out into the nearby suburb of Fremantle, a trendy town and the haunt of all the backpackers in the area. The first day in Freo was great, but we couldn't quite work out what all the hype was about - there were a few nice shops and it was a really picturesque town, right on a big port, and the we...

G'day! Well its sunday afternoon (4.30) and we have all just spent the weekend sizziling away by the lagoon in cairns, which is just by the harbour on the beach! The weather has been really nice for the last few days, its apparently very good weather for this time of year - around 28C today! Starting my PADI 5 day course tomorrow which will be g...

After leaving New Zealand it was onto Australia, I flew into Cairns and booked 3 nights at Calypso Hostel. The hostel was great other than the unfortunate incident of being put in a dorm with the worst snorer in the world!!!! Whilst in Cairns I did snorkelling on the great barrier reef, it was fab. Saw some really cool fish but unfortunately no ...