Plaza Tuna Towers Hotel Cairns

What an amazing nights sleep. It must be the first place we stayed since Tangalooma where the sunshine hasn’t woken you up and the alarm is the first thing that lets you know its morning. Still an early one thou as we had a flight out of Hamilton at 8:55, and boy was I gutted to be leaving there, but my credit card wasn’t. The flight had some incredible views as we left Hamilton Island and flew all up the Great Barrier Reef to Cairns. It was only a small propeller plane, however ...

... on a proper trip)... but it rained!!! First time I've seen rain in Oz.... first time I've seen rain for about 2 months! <br>Gutted! So we watched movies. All day. And night. Boring but cheap!<br><br>And now here I am in Sydney.... yesterday I could have got a straighforward flight from Cairns to Sydney.... but oh no, to save money I instead left Cairns at 7am... 6 hour bus to Townsville... waited there for 2 hours... flight to Brisbane at 5pm.... hung out there for an hour ...

... like stingers f.ex. But at Cairns Central YHA they have a swimming pool. So I spent a few days there with doing some washing of clothes, making my own food, calm down and sunbathing a little. But on tuesday I went diving. I had signed up for one dive, but after doing that dive I understood that I just had to make the most out of this. Three dives and a very happy Ingrid :D It was like swimming in an aquarium, lots of fish all ...

... I didn't know better I'd think I'd grown gills upon entering the water.<br><br>On the boat the food was good, the accomodations clean and just spacious enough, and the crew was nice. The basic itinerary every day was: eat-dive-eat-dive-eat-dive-eat. Yes, we actually had 2 brekky's(breakfasts).<br><br>Doug here: The food wasn't gourmet, but it was good, and plenty of it, so no complaints from me. On the last night they had an "Aussie BBQ" and one of ...

... thing we have ever seen!! It was sooooooo hilarious. It was comedy sketch show with music - Comedy Cabaret. Sooooooooo hilarious. Then we went out and had a dancing, drinking night again! <br>10th June - We left Surfer's Paradise to go to Arrawarra Coff's Harbour Surf Camp. We stopped off at Cape Byron - Australia's most Easterly point. We and our friend Amanda sat by the beach and had an awesome giggle. Then we arrived at Arrawarra, had a talk given to us by ...

And so onto Cairns up in the North of Queensland. From Sydney I've been on 6 buses and travelled a whopping 2978km! (I didn't count them by the way, I got that from my ticket.) This leg was 13 hours and I did this one in the daytime as opposed to the usual overnight ride. Northern Queensland is rural and is farmers central. Hicksville you could call it. Every other advert on the radio was for something like tractor hire, or a bull riding meet or beer. Passing ...

... dive site in the morning. Onboard are 26 other divers and 11 staff from all over the world - Australia, US, Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Germany, Japan etc. Everyone is in a good mode and is looking forward to some really good scuba diving. På svenska: Tisdag 2009-03-10 Tropisk värme Morgonen börjar tidigt, redan vid 4-tiden vaknar jag och får tvinga mig själv att ligga kvar en timme. Fler än jag är på bettet tidigt, de ...

... 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 swimming in the ocean at this time of year because of the jellyfish, and their are crocodile warning signs around the Esplanade as well. <br>

... be broken I was totally game! On my last night in Cairns (and after eating a large steak lunch just hours before on my Daintree tour) I swaggered into Boydy&#8217;s and sat down at the bar with the intent to break the record and have my name &amp; business card posted as Grand Champion!<br><br>According to my server the original record was 40 minutes, which shortly became 32 minutes, then 26 minutes and then 18 minutes, where it sat for a very long time. Six months before I ...

... so very little water is moving through the valley. It's dammed near the top for power generating. We rode the train back into Cairns. The next day we spent the day shopping and sitting in the pool. We had barramundi that night for dinner. Wonderful fish! The next day we were gone, back on a plane. This time we were off to Hong Kong via Brisbane. The bush fires all through Australia are bad and you could see the fires and smoke from the air. The sky is filled with smoke.