Blogs from Northern Beaches, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

We flew up to Cairns from Sydney a few days ago. The flight was about 3 hours which is about the same as flying from London to Kingussie three times. We have been relaxing and swimming a lot in our hotel. It has great slide and I have met lots of nice children to play with. Cairns is very very hot and sunny with a tropical climate. There are lots and lots of insects and other wild beasts. On our first night we saw lots of spiders and cockroaches, a Kangaroo jumped out of the bush in front of us and there was a big warning not to swim in the sea or the crocodiles would eat you. Cairns tropical Zoo Today was one of the most exciting days ever. This morning we went to Cairns ... read more

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We invited a few friends to join us on a day around the Botanical Gardens, one of my Cairns happy places. The gardens are so inspiring and full of life. Today was the annual festival on Collins. The main street is closed off to traffic to cater for a myriad of market stalls and people. Any excuse to celebrate life, food, street performance and craft.... The Tanks Art Centre was in full use. Bottom tank art on display and top tank for performers, including our circus leader Justine who was in her element in costume on stage! Live theatre always wins hands down!! The weather gave insight into the coming wet season with the first real sticky day of the season. After an eventful day, six tired boys finished local fruit ice creams and we meandered ... read more

Following our day out on the Great Barrier Reef, we headed back towards Cairns again only this time we had 8 days at the Marlin Cove Resort at Trinity Beach. We followed three massive coaches from the Quicksilver company all the way down the highway - boy that is one big operation! Marlin Cove turned out to be a fantastic resort and we'd been lucky enough to score a primo room overlooking the lagoon pool complete with white sandy beaches. Although not as close to the beach as our previous places, the lovely apartment and outlook more than made up for it. After a day lazing around taking it easy, enjoying the pool and playing a few games of tennis we were back into being tourists and went on a trip up to Kuranda on the ... read more