Blogs from Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 60

Hey everyone, Well I have arrived in cains. The airport that I left from at Alice Springs was miniture. It looked like a toy playmobile set. The flight was interesting as you could watch the changes of the land from red desert sand, to mountins to rich lush forsest as you approced the coast of queensland. The airport was right by the sea and for a moment it looked like we were going to land on the sea! I grabbed a free shuttle bus to cavanelles 149- the name of my hostle. This is a nice hostle with a pool and my room has 14 beds and 2 on suite showers woo. It is also very very cheap and comes with a free dinner everynight. For the last 4 nights I have had the same supper, ... read more

Devil's got a hold of me... he won't let go I feel the Lord pulling... but he's pulling dead slow Some of us do the winning some of us do the losing... it's just who does the choosing! In the end... we are all winners... Behalve de mensen die verliezen dan. Daarom ga er ik gemakshalve even vanuit dat jullie allemaal aan het winnen zijn. Mocht een en ander nou verkeerd gaan en ik daarbij kan helpen vanuit Cairns in Australie, laat het me weten. Diverse fotoverslagen op mijn telefoon herinnerden me eraan dat jullie niet eens zo heel slechte mensen zijn en best wel weten hoe een feestje te bouwen. Daarom heb ik weer zitten peinzen, pezen en zweten op een plezierig verhaaltje. Het bovenstaande filosofische dichtwerkje vond ik op de muur van een ... read more

Our new favourite piece of equipment is our roof top tent which we have just installed on the truck and tested. I thought I might share a few pictures with you as we had never really known they were available until recently. The thought of setting up a dome tent every night had been daunting us for months so we are very happy that we have found such a simple solution. It takes no time to set up, has a matress and you can leave made up and ready to go at the drop of a hat. The only draw back is that the car is now 2.3m high so carparks are out and low hanging branches a real hazard. The tent is a tribute to eBay as we paid about half of what they ... read more

Today has been a shopping day. Only two full days left in Oz and with most sights seen we are turning our attention to the shops. I wasn't going to add an entry for today but just had to comment on my delighted finding in Cairns shopping mall. As some kind of Easter event, a farm is visiting with a stall set up in the centre of the mall. Besides the usual farm animals they had 4 cages of guinea pigs!! AND most of them were babies! They were so cute and incredibly tame. I guess they get used to be handled every couple of minutes. I out-aged everyone by a good 20 years. Shashi just watched and took my photo. I am definitely going to get some more guineas soon. This evening we decided to ... read more

so we stopped over in cairns a couple days before and after our cape tribualtion trip! it is a very different city to anoy others we have been to. there are no high rise buildings and the city is right on the beach front. They have an esplanade which was really nice. Along it they had bbq stations, exercise stations (which we obviously used everyday), a skate park, a lagoon which was cool.....we spent alot of time here. after we got back from cape trip be stayed at one of georges realtives for 2 nights.....home made food again....yum! he also leant us hs car....hehe...........so we headed into town yesterday to meet up with vicki as she was flying to auckland today! We are going to try and make it three countries and catch up with ... read more