Briefly, last time we wrote this we were just off to work - more fruit picking again. So we spent 2 weeks in Innisfail, picking bananas. The work was ok, although it did involve far too many spiders (which scare me senseless!), lots of snakes (which I quite like!) and a few frogs (which i'm quite indifferent to!). The hostel in Innisfail was horrendous, so we only stayed for two weeks before taking our paychecks and fleeing to Cairns, where we now sit writing this. Now after the slight monotony of Australia's east coast (all the small towns are identical!), it was quite a relief to arrive in busy, touristy Cairns. It is a fab city, where every other shop is a souvineer shop, the rest are pubs and cafes! You can see why I
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