Cairns Looking at a map of Australia you can see there is a road that takes you through Greenvale, Ravenshoe, and Mareeba to get to Cairns. It seemed like a good idea at the time of planning the trip, so I didn't have to backtrack from Cairns to Townsville when I came back down the coast. However, I'm really pleased I checked in at a service sta...

Laundry, planning the next phase of this trip, trying to catch up

Thanks to all for your lovely comments and holiday wishes, by Thanksgiving was filled with some great sights and great conversation..... I took a tour of the rainforest, specificaly the Taberlands, which are about hour inland from the water, and it was really amazing to know that these rainforests are so close to the water and the barrier reef.....

After all the red rocks in the Red Centre Cairns has been a refreshing change with so much greenery! We've spent a week travelling around the area as it is so beautiful and there's so much to see. There are no annoying flies but unfortunately the mosi's have followed me here and I am still suffering from lots of bites. I have tried every sort ...

I got to Cairns via Brisbane. Well Brisbane airport looked very nice lol. Cairns was absolutely great. I met some really cool people. Lisa, especially cos i travelled to Mission Beach with her afterwards. But unfortunately she is going back home for xmas so i will only get to see her again next year :-( So anyways in Cairns there isnt much to do...

Hi everybody! This is my first entry as you can see so i hope it works ok! So from the begining, the wedding was fantastic! Im sure many of you were there and i hope you had as good a time as Ral and I did! we had a 2 week wait (which seemed like forever) before we got to leave on our honeymoon but we are finally here at our first stop in Cairns...

We arrived in Cairns on the September 12th. We found a nice hostel in the center of town but unfortunately we had to share our dorm with some extremely annoying people. There was these 2 German blokes, one of which had the most ridiculous hair I've ever seen, he'd grown a Mohican really long & dyed it bright orange, div. These stupid annoying Ge...

After Hong Kong, I flew, via Brisbane, to Cairns. Cairns is in north Queensland on the east coast, in a tropical part of the continent. It is the main access point for the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest, two World Heritage Sites. As such, it is unashamedly a tourist town (lots of Germans and Japanese), but pretty graciously so; w...

I packed up and left my hostel in Sydeny bright and early for a 9:50am flight from Sydney to Cairns (pronounced cans). After an uneventful flight (though they did give everyone an ice cream bar on the flight, so maybe that counts as eventful), I went and checked into Tropic Days hostel. This hostel was recommended by both my guide book and the c...

Really early start for this one. We were picked up at 4:05am and after picking everyone else up, we headed to Mareeba, part of the Atherton Tablelands for our hot air balloon ride at sunrise. There were two 30min rides, each with 20 people. We were on the 2nd flight, so we watched the 1st flight take off, and then followed the balloon in the bus...