Coral Tree Inn Cairns

Hello We arrived in Cairns at 8am local time after the long and tiring flights, all we wanted to do was sleep but we knew we had to stay awake to avoid screwing up our clocks even more, we got a bus from the Airport to our Hostel on the basis that we could atleast just leave our bags, we waited around for a while in the end until our room was cleared and we could check in, we then left our bags and headed ...

... purely for tourists. The journey is spectacular particularly as is passes the Barron Falls where it stops for a ‘photo opportunity’. The outstanding feature is the Stony Creek Bridge, an iron lattice construction held up by three gigantic trestle piers. I took the train up but returned on the Skyrail, this is the worlds longest rainforest cable way and give the traveller a completely different view of the gorge as it skims across the tree tops to the bottom ...

... t take too long. Nice clear water sparkling in the sun. Lots of photos along the way of course. : )

Time for our seawalker experience - basically like an old-style diving suit where you have a bell over your head with tubes to the surface and you walk along the sea floor. Unfortunately we didn't end up doing this as they had issues with Jeff having asthma. A bit peeved as his asthma is so minimal and ...

... so he was happy. We had been in touch with Nan too and it was confirmed – she was coming to Cairns to spend a few days. The lads were excited once again.

We had a couple of days till she arrived so we travelled to Bramston Beach; a council campground with hot showers and a washing machine! Doesn't take much to make me happy these days… It was a beautiful spot, right on the beach and very ...

... human contact with the reef must've occurred for some time. We know that Aboriginal people occupied great parts of the Australian continent for around 40,000 years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have fished and hunted its waters and navigated between the islands of the reef region.
For large parts of that time, during periods of glacial activity, the area of the Great Barrier Reef was dry with large flat coastal plains. This area is at a depth of less ...

... s, sleeping tree kangaroo,  sunning snakes and playing platypus all in one day! We got back to Cairns for one last evening and enjoyed apps and drinks with Cherene and our Brit friends. We'd had a blast that week, but it was time to pack up as Melissa departed at 6 a.m. and I needed a day to get organized for the last leg of my journey - Thailand and meeting up with Eric for the first time in 2 months. Next entry from Bangkok, or some exotic Thai island with Eric! Cheers!Stephanie

... quicksilver cruisse !Je suis allée faire un rapide tour de la ville et suis allée me couchée vers 23H. Je partage ma chambre avec 5 autres filles : japonaise, hollandaises et suisse allemande. Evidemment à 23heures personne n'était couché et elles sont rentrées les unes après les autres en allumant la lumière ce qui m'a réveillé ! Ben oui c'est pas cher (par rapport à une chambre simple dans un hôtel) mais cela a ces inconvénients ! Nous n'avons qu'une prise de ...

... but my editor tells me to nip it in the bud, so it's off the the airport where I thought I saw a local member of the chamber of commerce giving a traditional Cairns send-off which appears to be grabbing you by the ankles, turning you upside down, and shaking the last coins from your pockets before he lets you go down to your plane. Note to self: get editor spellcheck to catch all typos.

Day 52 Sunday 22nd Feb - Cairns Got up at 8am and got showered etc ready for my Skydive. The bus came for me at about 9:15am and took us to the office, which was just a few blocks away. Once we got there we had to fill in all the paperwork about if you die its not our fault blah blah, who to inform if you go splat etc. Once done we had about an hour wait as the group before had only just left dur to bad weather in the area they were gonna jump. Had a ...