Blogs from Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 62

Well now we are in Cairns. And i LOVE it!! Its so beautiful here. The sea is right on our doorstep with a backdrop of lush green mountains. I much prefer it to Darwin. We have been here for three dyas now. We tried to get onto the OZ bus for today but left it too late. We are now booked on for Thursday and have booked a few stops after that. You all would love Cains. The average age is around 45 which would be perfect for the Orion team. The resturants all look lovely with fresh seafood and other meals. Because we are poor backpackers we stick to the free meal vouchers given to us by our hostel. I have had chill and rice for the past two days. However i have varied ... read more

5 Hours of sleep later that damn alarm went off. We have an hour to get ourselves to the shuttle pickup spot across the street. As we put on our packs to go, we happily encountered a lighter load but need to work on the placement of items as the flip flops jabbing me in the back of the head were extremely uncomfortable. It was a cool rainy morning as we stepped outside to our rendevous spot. it arrived right on time and was suprised to see how many people were already on board. It was steamed up like a Hastings Express on a wet winter day, all that was missing was the drunk in the back seat (although for some strange reason, there was the aroma of wet dog?!) Threw on my IPOD for the ... read more

Just a quick message to say that I WILL post a blog entry once I get back to Sydney.... which will be in five days. I promise. I have just been really busy, either doing something exciting or sitting on a bus, and every moment I have had to go on the internet, the prices have been through the roof (most places are well over double the price than Sydney). So you can all look forward to a really big entry in a few days about my trip up the East coast of Oz, and how i nearly got eaten by wild crocodiles... only kidding. Speak to you all soon.... read more

Here we are back down under and continuing the adventure in our much loved van Irvine. We really have developed something of an unhealthy attachment to this 23 year old Nissan Urvan ( hence the startlingly imaginative name Irvine! ) but he has served us particularly well over the past 4 years. I have a suspicion that if Em had to choose between me and the van then I might be shown the door. We finally flew back to Oz on the 25th of February through the ever inefficient Heathrow and straight into Sydney after an unscheduled 5 hour holiday in Hong Kong airport. Thankfully we were greeted by fabulous sunshine and the ever beautiful city itself, not to mention the ever beautiful residents. This truly is an uplifting city to visit and sipping coffee in ... read more

Well we had one night in Cairns when we got back. This is perhaps the shortest blog entry of the entire trip so far but we felt the night deserved a mention. After getting back to the hostel we met up witth Pat and the crew at the hostel again and decided what better way to celebrate our homecoming (We had been away 4 nights) than a night out. Nights out in the hostel generally involve the beer garden or fire escape as it's known in layman terms before heading to Gilligans (No change there then). We had arranged to meet up with people we had met in Cape Tribulation and as usual were running about an hour late. Failing to find them in Gilligans we headed straight to the next obvious choice in town - ... read more