Plaza Tuna Towers Hotel Cairns

K so just got back from a three day dive trip yesterday, and all I can say is WOW. The Great Barrier Reef is great for a reason, people. Saw so many cool things; sea cucumbers, sea slugs, sharks, octupus, eels, rays, turtles, parrot fish, nemos (clownfish), giant wrasse (more on this later), barramundi, some AMAZING coral, etc etc. I honestly could go on for days and still not recount everything I saw cause the wildlife down there was in stunning abundance.
The ...

day 6
we got up a 7.30 and we got and to boat and we saled a boat to green island
and we got to green island and we got in the pool and we went to the great barriya reff and we went snorcking and we aw a lot and we saw a Reff shark but it was harm less and then we had lunch i had backet potao and rise with ...

... two lanes and tarmac the whole way but you still have to drive quite slowly often at no more than 40kph, as there are towering cliffs on one side and frightening unfenced sheer drops on the other, concentration is essential but difficult as the views are stunning and it is easy to be distracted. I arrived in Cairns in good time and made my way through the western suburbs to the Big 4 site at Crystal Cascades, unfortunately as I hadn’t booked I was unable to get a pitch ...

... didn't have time to think much once you got out of your seat. It was my favourite part of the whole experience. I think I was swearing like crazy during the first part. Falling through the air there was a ton of wind pushing against you. My instructor told me to wave to the camera (he was filming the whole time) and it was a little difficult with all the wind pressure. The view was amazing. You could see ocean, fields and rainforest all in one go. There was a ...

We arrived in Cairns after a great stay at Palm Cove which is only 60km down the road. Kim white water rafted down the Tully River- 'a full day of adrenalin.' We stayed in a unit which was luxury for us, on the esplanade in town. We caught up with Matt, Sabina, Alex and Nicholas and the kids had a great time ...

... rat babies he was trying to feed them, but a few snapped at him. Apparently crocs can go for 12months without eating, and they never really have the energy to move. He grovelled around in a murky pool and dragged out an alligator by the tail, thrashing and growling.There was one pen with like 50 crocs squashed in. They didn't even have enough space to lay down, so they were all sat across ...

What I've experienced over the last few days is one that I am not sure I can explain. The Great Barrier Reef is one of those places that you just have to take in yourself. Pictures, don't have any...Words, I will try. Honestly though, nothing will compare to you taking the plunge yourself. For me, the blue ocean water looks very similar to other trips I have been on. It's a lovely shade surrounded by mountains. It took us an hour long boat ride ...

... to, which included the girl at the front desk, the travel lady and our cabbie (who rattled off about 20 bars in ten seconds when asked, but who could not tell us a single good thing we should do while in town). This place was Gilligan's, a very nice, and very massive hostel that had a very large nightclub/beer garden. We had drinks in the beer garden while it poured outside(a common evening theme in Cairns, as we found out) and listened to a ...

... also have the sides of there vans painted with statements and cartoon pictures will post some pictures so ye can see. After hearing a few dodgy stories about Wicked we opt for the later. We are to pick it up either Wednesday or Thursday. So happy with what we've achieved we go check in and go to sleep for awhile. When we wake up we go for a walk around Cairns, its not a very big city at all more like a large town as there is no high rise buildings, we end ...

... to get dry and having been diving a couple of times it didn't seem worth the discomfort of swimming. My photo album is a bit sad, with a picture of a seaplane on shiny, wet tarmac followed by a postcard of a sunbather on a white sand beach next to the plane, which has just landed by clear blue water. It's captioned "This is what it should have been like".