Fly to Cairns
Trip Start
Jan 14, 2009
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Trip End
Mar 20, 2009
Trinity Beach,
Australia
Friday, February 20, 2009
Steve at Christchurch Airport
The first leg was a short flight to Christchurch. We congratulated ourselves on deciding to fly and save a 6 ½ hour drive - would probably have been much longer today as the weather was atrocious.Next leg was to Sydney, where we had to queue to get through immigration (three counters for Australia and NZ passport holders, one for all others!!!), negotiate our way through quarantine restrictions with a wooden necklace and certain provisions and then wait around for our delayed onward flight to Cairns (Thunderstorms at Brisbane!).
Jayne in lounge at Sydney airport
On arriving at Cairns we were delayed further as we had to remain seated on landing while the Federal Police boarded and detained a guy (we think for abusing the cabin crew) - added some excitement!! Some of the passengers started singing "Bad Boy, Bad Boy, Wotcha going to do when they come for you".
Picked up the car with no hitches from an English guy from Bolton and headed to Trinity Beach - would have been 20 minutes if Steve hadn't taken a detour in the dark up a windy mountain road with no turning places.
