Blogs from Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 61

To be filled in later. Visited Botanical Gardens and Flying Doctors Museum.... read more

Well this is going to be a quick entry. I'm here at the Cairns airport w/ 8min left on the internet card...anyways, Cairns was beautiful! All I can say is that the Great Barrier Reef is the most AMAZING thing I have EVER seen in my whole entire life. I bought a CD of the day so that includes the pictures of the day plus 100 of the best pictures over the years. There really are no words to describe how amazing it was. Pictures don't do it justice either. It was just...breathtaking. The colors of the coral were out of this world, the fish were just FREAKING COOL, and we saw SHARKS!!!! That was cool. Even though they were just reef sharks, it was still awesome. Also saw TURTLES!!!!! AMAZING. Just. AMAZING. I"ll post pictures ... read more

Today we took a road trip to Kurnada about a 45 minute drive up into the mountains inland from Cairns. We stopped at Rainforest Station Wildlife Park. We saw dingos, koalas, kangaroos, and wallabys. The scariest animal was a 5m croc called Jack-The-Ripper so named because he killed his last 12 mates, needless to say he has his own cage! I was wondering why it took them so long to separate him? Kuranda is a tourist town with many shops along the main street and a weekend market . This is where you can catch a train or a tram down the mountainside. The train was not running due to a mudslide. We did hike down Barren River Falls Park to the lookout. This 1.3 km return walk is excellent as it takes you through ... read more

The outback ranch experience was awesome!!!! I had the best, most exhilirating horseride that I have had for a long time! Only 3 of us out of the whole group were experienced riders so the leader Jackaroo took us on a fun ride before mustering the goats. Before we headed off he asked us all if we were all sure we wanted to go on this part of the ride as it was a 'dangerous ride', I went with it but wandered what the hell I had got myself into- after all its been a while since I rode properly. So off we went staight into a full on gallop though the dust and trees that lined the majorly huge farmland. We skidded to a halt as we reached a hill edge, the horses scrambled ... read more

On mum's birthday we take a 4 hour plane journey up north and arrive at our destination Cairns. We're greeted by a lovely Scottish lad and Canadian lad who i think take great delight in revealing to us that the Canadian was moved out of his earlier room due to a rat infestation!! mmm nice! The hostel didn't really get that much better from that point on, Michelle wasn't much impressed by the 'ghostbuster' cleaners who woke her up each morning, all the staff seemed to have an attitude problem despite the fact that they did no work and we were both unimpressed by the ants that attacked our food and the little thieves who nicked our chocolate bars!! Thats right, we now have to cook for oursevles as the budget kicks in - its like ... read more