Mercure Harbourside

... curtain of them as one point). All in all - a great experience! Tuesday 26 February 2008 - 17:57 Location: Mercure Harbourside Hotel, Cairnes Monday 25 February - evening. So we decided to get the shuttle bus to Cairnes Town ...

... just in time for the Arts Market - there was some lovely things there. Monday 18 February 2008 - 15:12 Location: Mercure Welcome Hotel, Melbourne Sunday 17 February - evening - went to a superb Chinese restaurant in China Town. ...

... taken away their natural habitat so it's only fair that they roost in the gardens. Afterwards we settled into a delightful lunch at the harbourside. Seems like we're always eating doesn't it. It's not true. We often drink. We took the 2 hour On/Off ...

Today is another early start, around 5:30AM. We shower up and get ready for breakfast in our hotel. Our tour guide Roland is right on time at 7:15. We meet some of the other people on our tour, a man travelling solo from Perth Australia, a Urologist and ...

Today we have a late start considering that we've been getting up really early every day. We wake up 6:30AM, shower up and head to down to breakfast at our hotel. We have a short ride to the Reef Fleet Terminal where we will be hooking up with the ...

Today we left Melbourne and headed to tropical north of Australia. Cairns is a small town situated on the northeast coast and acts as a launch point to the Great Barrier Reef. We left our hotel in Melbourne around 3:45am to catch our flight to Cairns ...

Ein toller Tag am Reef, den alle bis zum letzten Moment genossen haben. Die Ueberfahrt zum Aussenreef verlief ruhig. Eine grosse Anzahl der Gaeste hatte noch nie geschnorchelt und war am Anfang ein bisschen reserviert. Ich nahm dann einige ...

Der letzte Tag in dieser Gruppenkonstaltion. Mit dem Zug fuhren wir nach Kuranda. Ueber viele Bruecken hinweg, durch viele Tunnel hindurch und dann hielt unsere bunte Lokomotive auf einem Bilderbuchbahnhof. Das Regenwalddorf Kuranda ist ...

Vor dem Fruehstueck wurden wir abgeholt, doch zum Glueck konnte man sich noch vorher im Zimmer einen Kaffee zubereiten und die Fruehstuecksbox inspiezieren. 2 1/2 Stunden spaeter landeten wir in Cairns. Queensland wirbt nicht umsonst mit dem Slogan ...

2/19  we woke up and caught a plain to cairns, pronounced "cans".  it was hot and humid, again we traded the crummy grey weather for nice blue sky and humidity that made you instantly sicky.  the day was spent exploring the city.  ...

Wonderfull. A day cruise to the great barrier reef and a day trip to Kuranda. You must go there. And you must try the seabugs at the Raw Prawn Restaurant on the Esplanade. The totel is very good but not exactly in the ...

Air travel in Australia is sort of like magic.  Every time we get out of the plane we're in a completely different environment.  Ayers Rock Airport was hot, dry and arid, and Cairns (pronounced "cans") was hot, humid, and tropical.  Just ...