Blogs from Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 11

After leaving Flying Fish Point we travelled just a short distance to a place called Fishery Falls which is a very small town 35km south of Cairns. We had been told this caravan park was really nice so we thought we would stay a couple of nights before venturing onto Cairns. It was a nice park with lovely gardens, set behind the hotel and that was the whole of the town with just a few other houses. A lot of people stay at this park and travel to Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands as it is so peaceful. They have a Happy Hour every Friday evening and they have a raffle with about 6 prizes and Trevor and I were lucky enough to win the 2nd highest prize of $30 so we were very pleased. The ... read more

So we landed in Cairns at around 9:30am...only a short flight (2 hrs or so) Strangest thing we saw in Cairns was the presence of clouds for the first time in 4 weeks! We spent 3 days doing absolutely nothing there until on monday we went diving/snorkling on the great barrier reef.. WOW what a place to snorkle (Rob says it's amazing to scuba dive) We had 8 hours on the reef with Passions of Paradise, very good tour, well worth the money...the colours on the reef are so amazing and soo many fish... After this we ended up renting a nice Holden Commodore SV6 (reminds me of a Monte Carlo) sweet car, very nice indeed...we then headed out to Cooktown (last place north we could drive too) then we headed to Undara and visited some ... read more

Still Alive. Havn't written for a while for a couple of reasons, been really busy, AND back at the end of newzealand I lost a whole blog so have been in abit of a rage ever since. In Cairns now, have been for about a week. Had a wicked birthday, and silly hot weather up here. Too much effort to write about the rest of newzealand now, just going to have to remeber some highlights. Queenstown is the best place on earth, had a wicked week there. Favourite night out was gangster night, seems ages ago now but can just about remember most of it. A good 20 of us hit the steets sporting hand drawn tattoos (including drawn on weapons sticking out of our trousers, tear drops, gang signs, and many more), slit eye brows, ... read more

So, Ellie and I are in Cairns and are currently staying at a little hostel called Tropic Days. It's a pretty laid-back type of place and has a swimming pool and garden full of palm trees and hammocks (I haven't fallen out of one yet). We are booked in here for 3 nights but will probably extend for a couple of nights as it is great value for money (we get free meals in the evening) and we are also looking at booking up our first few trips on the East Coast. We will definitely be booking up to go Whitsunday sailing (it looks amazing) and also 4 wheeled driving on Fraser Island. Both trips are considered 'musts' when travelling on the East Coast so we are also looking to do some horseriding at somepoint as ... read more

I'm about halfway thru my Oz visit. Have been to Melbourne - loved it and did a lot there including a trip to Philip Island where I held a koala and saw hundreds of tiny blue wild penguins coming up the beach to their nests at dusk - loved that! Was not keen on Sydney - didn't help that the weather was bad - but I did go to the beautiful Manly Beach (with the rest of Australia I think) on Easter Monday. That was the only hot sunny day I had there but of course the beach was heaving. Opera House was impressive, as was the bridge, but apart from that Sydney left me cold. Brisbane was OK - hired a car and went up to Noosa Heads which was just lovely - again I ... read more