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By ValandDoug
September 11th 2009
Hello from Cairns Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns
We are enjoying Cairns, after arriving here yesterday afternoon. We called into Paronella Park once we'd left Mission Beach. http://www.paronellapark.com.au/ A Spanish immigrant, Jose Paronella, who made money first by working on sugar cane farms, then buying and selling farms, had the dream of building a castle. He bought an acreage containing the Mena Falls, in the 1930's, built a home for his family and then got to work building his 'castle'. He was a clever man and a good worker, first building a very very long flight of stairs up the hill so he could carry his building materials up [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 11th 2009 | 66 Views | [diary=435639]

Paronella Park ruins
Mena Falls
f rom the Kuranda train

DAY 308 We made a comment the day before yesterday, that our days were not very exciting at the moment but a message from Helen at Woodstock reminds us that, like her, there are probably many others longing for a day like ours, just lounging around, reading, catnapping and the occasional walk (a day without sheep), so we should not take it for granted that things are not terribly exciting, I have to admit that it is a real pleasure to be able to do these things and make the most of it before our year is out and we will [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 12th 2009 | 89 Views | [diary=435909]

In the Orchid House
Naetly Manicured Lawns
Chocolate Beehive Ginger

By ErinandJessa
September 11th 2009
Cairns - Paradise! Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns
Cairns...paradise found!! We started off the day by sprinting to the airport after a 2 hour nap from 5am-7am and scarfed down McDonald's breakfast like it was our last meal. I don't care where in the world you are, if you don't like McDonald's brekky, there is something wrong with you. Cut to us getting on the plane, eyes barely open from lack of sleep and egg mcmuffin food coma. First thing we notice when we sit down is that the plane seats have tv's in the back of them. Second thing we notice is that the only channel you could [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 11th 2009 | 85 Views | [diary=435552]

GBR!
Who is Jessa texting at this hour? InAustralia? Hmmm
Passed oooouttt

Barron Gorge
Barron Gorge
Taken from Wrights Lookout just at the beginning of our walk.
DAY 307 After all the fantastic information we had received from Ann at QPWS (Queensland Parks & Wildlife Services), and doing the Copperlode Dam walk the other day, see blog day 304 07 09 2009 (Copperlode Dam to Crystal Cascades) we wanted to get some more walks in, so had loosely decided on a walk that started at Wrights Lookout, just beyond the Barron Falls Lookout, and went on to the McDonalds track. The information said it was a 4.7 Kilometer walk each way, to the Douglas track, and is a historic track (we are not certain why so historic). Approximately [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 11th 2009 | 78 Views | [diary=435528]

Looking back to the gate
Loose Track
Waterfall

I hope you are all well and enjoyed the summer holidays and now ready for the new school year! I was thinking of you all on the day you went back to school. As many of you already know from reading my blog over the summer I had a fantastic time in Thailand and am now in Northern Australia in a city called Cairns. I am working at an Italian restaurant called La Pizza, which is on the beach. It took me a long time to get used to carrying all the trays and pizzas and one day I nearly dropped [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 9th 2009 | 107 Views | [diary=435289]

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DAY 306 For some strange reason I was up at silly O’clock this morning and I don’t know why, but typing the blog retrospectively we try to make mental notes, or written notes, but for the life of me I cannot remember what was on my mind yesterday morning, except that neither of us had a good nights sleep, we felt a little deflated yesterday so I think it just remains on my mind. We had an invitation this morning to go and have coffee with Pamela and Terry up at their splendid hillside pad up at Palm Cove, we need [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 10th 2009 | 60 Views | [diary=435400]


Ende August hab ich nach dreieinhalb monaten, vier festivals und ungefaehr 50 arbeitstagen mit arbeiten aufgehoert und bin wieder nach cairns (groeesste stadt im norden queenslands und touristisches zentrum fuers great barrier reef) gefahren. dort angekommen hab ich hab ich sofort mein open water dive course und advanced course (tauchschein und fortgeschrittenenkurz)angefangen. der kurz besteht aus 2 tage theorie und pool training um tauchen an sich zu lernen und dann ging es fuer 4 tage auf das aeussere great barrier reef. nach vier trainingstauchgaengen bekommt man dann sein tauchschein [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 9th 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=434733]

staghorn corals
hawksbill turtle
yellow tail snappers

DAY 305 Andy was up before me this morning (nothing unusual there then!), I expected my muscles to be a little bit sore after yesterdays hike from Copperlode Dam to Crystal Cascades and back again, but no, we both feel absolutely fine. I don’t think we are going to have a lot to write about today as today is more about sorting out our future here rather than the tourist bit. We had an introduction to a local agency to help us with looking for work in the Cairns area or at least in the Tropical North Queensland, so Andy spoke [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 9th 2009 | 68 Views | [diary=435154]


DAY 304 Far from having those Monday morning Blues, I woke up, jumped out of bed and put the kettle on, today we were finally going to walk the trail from Copperlode Dam to Crystal Cascades. Before Caroline was up, I had made the sandwiches, filled the camelbak, got the boots, together made sure the first aid kit was in the rucksack, well walking with Caroline can be hazardous. verything was done, Caroline had had her morning tea, and so after a light breakfast we were in the truck and heading up the mountain towards Copperlode Dam. About the walk [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 8th 2009 | 79 Views | [diary=434715]

The Start of the track
Caroline enjoying the tough walk
Interesting bark

DAY 303 Again it was out intention that today Sunday we were going to do a big walk, but as we did not get in from a fantastic night out last night until after 2.30 am, we struggled to move our lazy backsides out of bed. Caroline was up first and brought me tea in bed, how wonderful it was after all it is usually my duty, but today it was my turn. We didn’t really come around until about 10.00am and lolled around the house really enjoying the Sunday that we had. After the papers were scoured through and [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 7th 2009 | 61 Views | [diary=434535]

The Mud flats
Cairns Eslanade
Cairns Eslanade