Reef Palms Cairns

An alle daheim gebliebenen, damit ihr euch auf dem laufenden halten koennt, wie es mir hier so geht. Viel Spass beim Lesen! liebe Gruesse aus Down under Betty

We are heading east around the world; doing the backpacker thing, like so many before us... "TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler..."

... is muddy mangroves with lots of mud crabs especially at low tide. To get to “The pristine, unspoilt beaches of Cairns, renowned for its palm-fringed golden sands and calm tropical water, stretching more than 26 kms along the Coral Sea” one ...

... and began to rise above the treetops and up over the mountainside, the weather no longer mattered. what views!!! we could see cairns, the neighboring town of smithfield and all the way to the reef. it only got better as we floated across the rainforest ...

... would highly highly recommend this trip to anyone even thinking about diving!! CHEERS PRODIVE! To check out some pics from the trip I will upload em soon to.... (you will have to select the cairns photos).... ...

... airport we investigated some of the car and campervan rental companies, without much success, so decided to grab a taxi back to Cairns and the information centre. Unfortunately the air-con was broke in the info centre and it was bloomin hot! We ...

... it was totally amazing and no words can do it justice (or pics for that matter!) Today we left Cairns early and travelled out onto the Outer Barrier Reef, we snorkelled to our hearts content, saw clams, clownfish, oh so many different multicoloured fish, ...

... think of you hope that's OK)) we arrived in Cairns in beautiful hot weather. Had a great view of the Barrier Reef on our approach to Cairns. Given a great big Shogun for our rental car and then off to our accommodation, the Rainforest B&B, in Cairns ...

... pancakes for every meal." Fifty pancakes!? No wonder he weighed 300 pounds. A tropical thunderstorm hit Cairns that night. As I walked home from The Reef casino (I'd like to note: I lost $270 Australian playing poker), the mountains on the ...

In the holidays I had the chance to fly to Cairns for eight days, where I was touring around with a Spanish friend. And it was AMAZING! After living in Adelaide and travelling to Melbourne and Sydney, I thought I know Australia pretty well, but I was ...

... trees that reside along the beach front drive. Palm Cove also had some of my now favourite trees, the Fox Tail Palms. After getting back to Cairns, we set up a car hire for the next day, so we could drive though the Atherton Tablelands and went into ...

... so will make a small one and have it on next time.  Tell them the Kangaroo photos are for them. Well we got to Cairns where we expected it to be mega hot, but it was warm, breezy and fine.  Nothing like Brisbane which was unbearable ...

... a chopper ride for Saturday before we leave the Southern Hemisphere behind. Oh, and we discovered it makes no difference not having a beach in Cairns as it’s infested with saltwater crocs anyway! Safe, sound, & ready to snorkel Mark & Tina ...

The flight to Cairns was super easy and only a quick 3 hours! When we landed, I had to walk across nearly the whole airport as a lot of it is under construction.  Got my bags then kinda didn't know what to do. So I grabbed a cab.   When I pulled up at ...

... sat on the bottom of the ocean. definately glad when we went back up, got dry and lunch was ready! off the next stop: Hastings Reef (in the middle of the Ocean) we went for another snorkle heaps of snapper when we jumped intot the water, got to see ...

... flamingos as they have pink heads but their bodies are grey. There is virtually no radio or TV stations since we left Cairns due to the flooding. Rockhampton is know as the beef capital of Australia, and the Tropic of Capricorn runs through this city ...

... more different - mountains with a dark green coating of forest next to the Pacific Ocean, blue and shimmering. The temparature in Cairns was slightly lower than Alice, but because of the humidity it didn't give us any relief. Cairns took us by surprise ...

... having to put the heating on in the Blue Mountains!  We spent a relaxing first day planning our activities and looking around Cairns.  We spotted some trees absolutely full of fruit bats!  They were very noisy and a bit smelly, and every ...

... we have been camping on islands and not too much on internet. We started our East Coast discovery in Cairns, in the north of Australia near the Great Barrier Reef. On the first day we took a boat trip out to the reef to snorkel among lots of fish and ...

... coast was looking better, and Nigel was very keen to take our much postponed trip to The Great Barrier Reef to snorkel, so we headed for Cairns along the Gilles Highway,  famous for its 263 corners, and 800m elevation change in only 19km of ...

... magnificent waters. The other activity that Queens land is famous for is white water rafting which I have always, always wanted to do. From cairns you can get to a few rivers but we opted for the Tully as it is famous for white water rafting and that is ...