Cascade Gardens Cairns

... mellow 90 minute ride out to the Reef.  They have a permanent floating pontoon thing in the middle of the reef.  So we docked on that.  I grabbed my stinger suit-a lovely lycra head to toe suit they suggest you wear so you don't get stung by any of the array of deadly jellyfish.  I think that they could still easily sting you through these god awful things! Grabbed my snorkel stuff and hopped in.  It is amazing all the stuff that is under there! The coral and fish were beautiful! It was ...

... boarded the Quicksilver catamaran and prepared to cruise to the Agincourt Reef. A large platform was located there, which would be our jumping off point for our reef experience. The crew had warned us that the ride was going to be a bumpy one and that we should all take precautions in the event that we get seasick (i.e. take a pill). The trip out to the reef was going to take 90 minutes.<br><br>In general, I found the boat ride to be a ...

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... upper bunk and onto my lower double bed. (Or in case there were any other flying objects raining down from up there.) I was bundled up like a little Joey in its Mother's pouch! I had thought about bringing a sleeping sack along for Doug, but figured he'd say it was "girlie", so I didn't. Of course on the very first night he noticed it, asked me where it came from, and began to covet it. Sometimes one can't win!<br><br>Breakfast was a pretty quiet ...

... pictures of the falls. We spent quite a while in Kuranda, wandering up the main street and looking at all the shops. There were quite a few little market areas as well. One shop in particular was fascinating &#8211; the Stillwater Sweets. They make soft sweets there and you get to watch them actually making them. The guy making them also tells you all about how he makes them. After having lunch, we caught the Skyrail (a gondola) back down the mountains. There are a couple of stops that ...

Happy Birthday to Kimmy! Wow my baby is 8. Had a lovely breaky of eggs and toast...yummy. Of course the mandatory cuppa was involved. I wish I was a kid again....$40 from the grandparents! When was the last time I got that???<br>Headed out on the Cat to Green Island. Gus and Josh headed out on the Glass bottom boat to see the local fish. I ...

... Cousin Rohan was actually very knowledgable about the area and filled us with facts throughout the day. He showed us a plant in the rainforest that the Aboriginies call gimpy gimpy which means bad bad. In WWII American Soldiers training in the jungle got caught out a few times by this little beaut. If you rub it on the skin it releases tiny hyperdermic syringe type things that penetrate the skin and then release a irritant which causes you to ...

... creatures that inhabit the Reef - although we did have to wear some spectacularly skin tight full body lycra "Stinger suits". After spending about 45 mins under water, we surfaced and had a half an hour rest so that our tanks could be filled etc. We then jumped back in to start our second dive (on the same reef but taking a different route) and again saw so many different types of fish, coral and Nudibranchs. We saw three different types of ...

... up on sleep and restocking basic s for the trip. På svenska: Måndag 2009-03-09 Zombie mosig Efter ha rest i 32 h i sträck anländer  vi till till Cairns i Australien. Vi hä mtar bagaget, hyrbilen och kör (!) till  vandrarhemmet rejält zombie mosiga. Ly ckligtvis för oss (och alla andra på vä gen) är Cairns lätt att hitta i och för utom total förvirring i första rondelle n och förväxling mellan vindrutetorkare  och blinkers tar vi oss till vår desti nation utan missöden. Cairns är vackert ...

... While in The Woolshed&#8217;s restaurant phase of the night we sat down at a series of long benches, and then later, when the plates were gone and the drinks were moved, the venue turned into a packed nightclub and we had the perfect position to jump up on the benches and dance around. It was great fun, and this for me was definitely one of the best nights of the tour.