"++++WARNING - THIS IS A LONG ONE!!! Tons and tons of photos and lots and lots to write up about. Please stick with us - we hope this one is worth it++++++ So, after exp ..."
"Well, I'm finally here in Australia, my halfway point for this trip around the world, both in terms of time and distance. I was lucky enough to take the Airbus A380 super jumbo fro ..."
"This overnighter on the bus from Airlie to Cairns is even tougher than the previous one. In my rush to get a good seat, and perhaps still overwhelmed by my birthday buddy, I forget ..."
A travel blog entry from Cairns by
jambo
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"Alex: After our final overnight bus journey we got to a blisteringly hot Cairns but decided not to hit the beach (well, it's actually a man-made lagoon) thinking we would have ..."
A travel blog entry from Cairns by
alexndean
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"A smoother ride back on the boat to the mainland saw the bus journey north just as pleasant with a friendly German girl talk to most of the way until Mission Beach making me almost ..."
A travel blog entry from Cairns by
alasdairm
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"Whew! What a month it's been! Hard to believe that it's been just over four weeks since I stepped off a plane in Melbourne, clear across the country. I've looped around and followe ..."
A travel blog entry from Cairns by
segacs
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"Well we have landed here in Cairns and we are safe and well. The flight made a stop at Darwin to drop some people off and refuel; they made us get off the plane with all our luggag ..."
A travel blog entry from Cairns by
roseyben
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"Saturday Flight great again with fantastic views over N Territory and coming towards Cairns where the clouds started to arrive! Scenery coming into Queensland looks like home with ..."
A travel blog entry from Cairns by
emanddave
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"Our mission in Cairns was to get a dive in......poor Paul had done is his Open Water in Byron and everywhere along the Great Barrier Reef we could not dive due to bad weather ..."
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hodge
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"Day 1 With the rigmarole of getting to Cairns laying ahead of us we got up at 7:45 in order to pack and catch the 9:15 bus before getting the 9:45 ferry and reading our books at th ..."