Hotel Quality Inn Rainbow Southside Cairns

... camper was very humid at night (but I cant complain I guess).....we drove a route called the Waterfall Way which is pretty self-explanatory...saw and swam in some amazing waterfalls....altho they were very, very cold which prob explains why we were the only tourist swimming in them...the Aussie's thought we were all a bit nuts but ah well! Giving back the camper van after a week was annoying, got really attached to our Dude (as we called it ...

... tourist attractions in Alice Springs. As it is a strange little town, we were not expecting too much, but we had nothing else to do before catching our late afternoon flight to Darwin, so off we went to the reptile centre and the Royal Flying Doctors. The reptile centre turned out to be pretty cool, with a great number of very cool lizzards and snakes. On one of the pictures you can see Ivo made friends with Cleo the snake and as she crawled all over his body, she ...

... t exciting enough for the Meatheads, but that's par for their course). We had a little contest going - it was a battle between Teams Canada, USA, Germany, Taiwan (one girl) and Australia. Still not sure who won, but it was pretty fun!

We then had a bite for lunch, and I was introduced to the green tree ants. Our guides told us that if you picked up one of these suckers and licked their ass, you'd have a citrus flavour in your mouth. I ...

... auch Schalthebel auf der falschen Seite, stiegen andauernd auf der falschen Seite ins Auto ein und zu guter letzt wunderten wir uns, dass uns ein Auto entgegenkommt wenn wir wie gewohnt rechtsfuhren.
An unserem zweiten Tag in Cairns hatten wir uns schliesslich voellig regeneriert uns starteten auch gleich voll mit einem Schnorcheltrip zum Outer Barrier Reerf durch. Bis auf die Tatsache dass einem beim Schnorcheln im Wasser ohne ...

... that I'm not sure I could even climb. Did a bit of a food shop in Atherton and then headed for Lake Tinnaroo - a spot Jeremy saw an add for that they had caught plenty of 1m plus Barra's so of course we had to come. The first couple of spots were physically impossible for our van to get into and we finally managed with Jeremy's expert driving to get settled. The kids enjoyed the bouncing pilllow while I attacked the washing pile.

... and went to check the mud crab pots. To be honest I thought we were just going for a ride so when he pulled up a big pot and a mud crab escaped and started coming at me I was a little freaked out (apparently they can take your finger off and when they clamp they can just leave it and break off there claw, so its a bit of a problem). We avoided any crocs and got 2 legal sized mud crabs which we are gonna cook up for ...

... Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire??When his accomplishments raise suspicions that he is cheating, we see in flashbacks of his rough life how he came to be so knowledgeable. The "Slumdog?DVD features include commentary by director Danny Boyle, star Dev Patel, writer Simon Beaufoy and producer Christian Colson, behind-the scenes featurettes and deleted scenes. For all of its glories, "Slumdog?took a long ...

... how he'd like to see my tattoo'd arm holding god knows what (and it wasn't a morrisons carrier bag full of shopping I'll tell yer). Headscalf Harry - (well it was more of a Bandanna but I needed the BB for the next person) seemed okay and the fact that he was embarrassed by Bald Bens comment meant he mustn't of been that drunk (nobody was THAT drunk). Brown-eyed Brian - Was the nicest looking of the bunch and was quite chatty and friendly. Also he ...

I got the free bus to Cairns and the next day was woken by the announcement that there was a cyclone heading towards the city in the next 24 hours and we were advised to stock up with tinned food and water. Although there was lots of wind and rain it was not too bad and the next day I was luck to get the flight back to Sydney.

... our taxi to the same area to keep the cost down.

That couple were from Ireland, and were heading for Uluru the next day, so we gave them the lowdown and within 10 minutes were outside our hotel.

The lady at the rank had told us that the taxi would be a total of A$16 ...