Blogs from Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 8

AUSTRALIA – DEL 3! Da er vi ferdige med Australia for denne gang! Vi har hatt det helt fantastisk. Virkelig en av våre favorittdestinasjoner. De siste dagene i Australia tilbrakte vi på en seilbåt på Whitsundays. Her lå vi langflate på dekk og slikket sol. Det var steikende varmt og om det kom en sjøsprøyt eller to var det bare deilig og avkjølende. Krystallblått vann og et tropisk øylandskap - Vi var i paradis! På turen fikk vi oppleve Whitehaven beach (kåret til en av topp 10- verdens fineste strender) og snorkling ved korallrevet var også en del av programmet. På kvelden var det tid for karaoke og da var det Annky og Christinas tur til å vise de skjulte talente sine. Vi brakte løs med This Love av Maroon 5 og fikk stormende applaus for ... read more

Australia – Cairns – Diving at the Great Barrier Reef and a quick visit to Cape Tribulation before I say goodbye to Oz. OK I realise a lot of my blogs of late have been a little negative towards Australia and in particular the weather. I will get the weather out of the way now, it rained during my Great Barrier Reef trip and Cape tribulation but I’m pleased to say it did not ruin either day. This is the end of my moaning and the blogs from now on will be more upbeat. Yes you’ve guessed it I’ve had a word with myself! Diving at the Great Barrier Reef was one of the main things I had been looking forward to so I was very happy to be on board my boat and heading out ... read more

Hello from Cairns the hottest place on earth! it is absolutly stunning up here we are in the middle of a mountain range and you can see lush green hills whenever you turn your head! we flew in and i managed to brave looking out the window and saw a waterfall...theeee most scienic arival ever! i knew we were going to have a good time when i saw that. stepping out into this heat was quite nice from a change from melborune but i seriously love air con now it is most definatly my best friend haha we get free meals at the hostel but last night we couldnt stand our 3rd night of chillie con carne and figured that they just reheat and keep reheating so i splashed out and boguht myself some yum food ... read more

Naz: The last two weeks of our time in Oz have been absolutely crammed withe activities, adventures and unforgettable moments. First, we went to Gagaju bush camp, which is located on the Noosa River. While we were there we canooed up the everglades (singing), camped out, sat around camp fires (eating marshmallows of course) and made some really good friends. It was quite tough living in the bush and this is probably one of the primary reasons everyone got along so well, cos we were all suffering together. Every night we would all get out our boxes of 'goon' (wine) and play drinking games around the fire such as 'ring of fire', 'who the f*ck' and 'Twenty-One'. One particular night we were playing 'ring of fire' and by the end (after a fair few glasses of ... read more

I really really miss Cairns, having spend so much time there as a child... Anyways, after our Western Australia adventure, I went back to Melbourne for a few days to get things organised for the East Coast trip... This trip consisted of me, Martin, Alexandra and Cat... The flights from Melbourne to Cairns takes about 4 hours, Jetstar is probably the cheapest, you can get a ticket for $189 (I am not advertising for them though...), from Cairns airport it takes about 15 minutes to get to the CBD, mainly along Sheridan st and Apline st... The first thing I want to do in Cairns is SCUBBBBAAA... I really miss scuba diving, when I first got certified PADI OW, I managed 60 dives in 3 months... but since moving to Melbourne, I did only 2 dives ... read more