While away we had a couple of internet issues so I'm posting this from home. Well. What can I say about this place. It sits right on the waters edge at Trinity Beach 15 Km out of Cairns in Queensland. This place is amazing. Basically it was a weekend of good food, great company, fine weather, and the best location. We ate, we drank, we swam, and...

I sleep well on the bunks unfortuantely Nic less so, we get breakfast and then we're stumped as to what to do with the rain constantly falling. We play Monopoly again with this time me using my business acumin and winning and then wait to be picked to be taken back. The bus is 50 minutes late and the driver who comes is an obnoxious **** of the ...

Hello, On this whole trip there has never been a dull day, and I have done so many things I never thought I would but in Cairns I had an experience that probably tops the lot....although I'm fairly keen to forget it! After a 12 h bus ride from Airlie beach we arrived at the Travellers Oasis, a nice little hostel in Cairns. The larger than life o...

So Donovan passed his written exam with flying colours - 98%. Well done hun!!! And today he has his first open water dive. He's a little worried, but judging by his confidence at the skills in the pool, he'll be just fine. I had a wander around Cairns... it's actually quite a rough place particularly first thing in the morning. I wandered down t...

Sunday, August 26, 2007 Milln Reef - Third Sister It was our last day on the reef =( . We all decided to do our Adventure Course which would allow us to dive to 30m instead of just 18m which was our first certification. So at 6:00 a.m. Rikki took us for our deep dive and we did our skills testing at a depth of 28.4 metres. We saw a lionfish agai...

Friday the 30 of March....yet another beautiful day to set out to one of the 7th wonders of the world......The Barrier Reef. Us and a boat load of Oriental tourists. By the end of the day we all had had enough of some of their attitudes, including the staff on board. We had booked our tour through Suncover Reef Cruises. Very professional group, ...

Well dudes Gerry is making me type even tho I'm busting for the loo don't u hate him! Anyways we haven't been near to many computers lately so thought we'd better say hello! After Melbourne we flew up to Cairns. Nobody thought to tell us it was their wet season tho- D'oh!! Despite the tropical weather, ie rain, storms, cyclone warnings etc we ma...

Instead of shrimp, let's try a little roo or crocodile. [img=http://www.travellerspoint.com/pho tos/51219/IMGP2754.JPG] [i][b]Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. -Benjamin Franklin[/b][i] A plane has transported us from New Zealand and Lord of the Rings to the massive country of kangaroos, every animal in the world ...

Arrived in Cairns during a storm, people up here call it the wet season & it is very, very wet! The van seemed to be leaking all over the place, while soaking the carpet it made a wonderful smell. We put posters advertising the van in lots of hostels, Clare wouldn't let me put 'will throw in the wife for a slab of VB' on the ad. Headed north of ...

After about a year of no contact with my passion of basketball, i was finally reunited with it when i was lucky enough to have been given a free ticket to go and watch the Cairns Taipans play the Adelaide 36ers in Cairns. I know next to nothing about Aussie basketball and refrained from comparing it to backetball in the UK or US in fear of being...