Coral Towers Holiday Units Cairns

We went along with the Australia Conservation Volunteers on their trip to eradicate weeds up in the tablelands and around. Technically we were volunteering but we got a nice free tour out of it as well of the waterfalls and the curtain fig tree. It poured rain on us for a while, but what else can you expect during rainy season?

We went parasailing! Unfortunately neither Christie nor I have no pictures of it, but we DO have photos from other adventures. I did the typical touristy thing—holding a koala—at this place above the casino. And Christie and I went gambling! She won a whopping nine dollars.

We also went out to the Great Barrier Reef to scuba dive. We could choose to wear a wetsuit, a stinger suit, or none (just a swimsuit). It was so warm I just picked neither, I guess it wouldn't have bee...

My friend Christie and I met up in Cairns, we got set up with an internship and they paid for us to have a sweet two-bedroom apartment on the ocean called Coral Towers right on the esplanade. Incredible views of the sea, the mountains and the sunrises.

The Esplanade is a big part of our daily lives. We always walk into to town or jog at nights or mornings. In the morning the tide is high, but later in the afternoon it always goes down and turns into these massive mud flats. And no swim...

Christie and I had been waiting for our friend Dani to arrive in Cairns before taking a trip up to Kuranda, which is a village in the rainforest near Cairns. Most people do a tour where they take the train up via the Kuranda Scenic Railway and the Skyrail down or vice versa. The train was undergoing some fixing/maintenence or something rather so we took the Skyrail up and down. We had beautiful views of the rainforest below. When we arrived in Kuranda we encountered some people on the street ...

While my friends Christie and Danielle were in Melbourne (our boss took them along on a business trip, I was so jealous!) I was able to go scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef again. I went out to Michaelmas Cay and another location with a great company called Passions of Paradise. While diving I saw a shark, a huge clam, and a great big sea turtle. I met some great people as well. While walking down the esplanade to the pier I was able to capture some amazing morning lighting as the sun ca...

We went to Cairns Botanic Gardens (I find the word botanic strange, I call them the botanic gardens). I remember doing A LOT of walking.