Cairns Specialty Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today I went diving. The reef was not very colorful; I feel that I would have enjoyed going to the rainforrest. The Great Barrier Reef was beautiful from the water though. On a side note, I thought it is weird that I saw everyone and their brother wearing the mullet. I mean, the 80's are over folks...move on.

We got up on Sunday to go see the Rainforest that sits just west of Cairns along the Great Dividing Range- the largest mountain system in Australia. We booked a skyrail trip to Kuranda, with a scenic rail trip on the way back. The skyrail was a long gondola trip over the canopy of the rainforest and took about an hour to get to Kuranda. Our trav...

Hello blogees. I see there has been some interest in the blog since I last posted. I can almost hear the sighs of "he STILL hasn't posted. He said he would". So here it finally is. The first entry on my travels. Since leaving the UK on Wednesday, and although today is Sunday, I have actually only had about a day and a half of actual time to do a...

Hello, I've just got back from Cape Tribulation - we got back and got a lift with our bags to our new hostel the other side of Cairns (its in the town centre so no need to get the bus now) - trying to think of where i left off the other day - we didn't do much later on the day i left u on - we went into Cairns again and back to the Lagoon - we h...

Welcome to Austr*li*, Upon *rriving *t my destin*tion, you could smell the we*ther *nd humidity. All re*lis*tion sets in *t this point, you *re truly *cross the world with your home on your b*ck. First test of strength will be *rriving *t my desired destin*tion, Shen*****ns Hostel. E*sy enough. I st*nd outside w*iting for my 'Shuttle Bus' to *rr...

Hi Mates...how you going! Well we are really starting to like this way of talking here and all seem to be adapting well. We have been meeting so many nice people from all over the world and the Aussie's are so great. This update was for what we did 2 days ago, as I was too tired the last 2 nights to think. Now we are up to catch a 5:30 Am flight...

Through much soul (and wallet) searching I decided I just had to go scuba diving while being so close to The Great Barrier Reef. After two days of classroom theory (including homework!) and tests in the pool, I have passed the first stage of aquiring my scuba licence, (48 out of 50 on the exam!). Stage 2 is two days living on a boat and being te...

And so after all the ordeals witht the flights we made it to Cairns in oz. It´s a lovely place.. it´s not like. Ah I´m being too harsh. There are some lovely concrete blocks and a man made lagoon and a dump of an irish pub but we weren´t there for all that we were there to dive. And we weren´t dissapointed. We headed off for 4days on the outer b...

Wahow, what a day! And one of my life-wish-list item ticked: We have seen the Great Barrier Reef! We went on one of those boat tours that took us all the way to the outside reef. (about 60 km from the coast). They take you to a platform, from which you can take a boat to go diving, or a helicopter to see the reef from above, or just go snorkling...

Well, here we are. Covered in dirt, grime, dust and sweat. We've been eaten alive by mozzies, sand flies and green-bum ants and with our hairy legs, bushy eyebrows and well, we'll stop there but you get the hint...the line between being feminine and being a cave woman has been seriously blurred. Not only that, we've survived millions of corrugat...