Blogs from Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 18

Finally found a computer that allows me to upload photos to the blog so hopefully the selection I have put up with this blog, help illustrate the text! Cairns is certainly different from Darwin and is a lot more spread out. We arrived again at a stupid time in the morning so had to wait a long time before we could check in. Wherever you are, finding your new hostel is a tense experience - as always we looked out of the window everytime the airport shuttle bus stopped, hoping that it wasn't/was our hostel! Thanksfully the first place it stopped that looked quite good was for our hostel! Phew! This hostel was Dans choice so he was quite relieved as well. Bleary eyed we walked around the central street where our hostel was, grabbed some ... read more

Day 46 Monday is here!!! And hopefully our parts are in. start the day of easy, pack up our tents and load the truck up and away we go into cairns again. Pinks power steering is our first stop, drop off the seal kit, the balk at our idea to just keep the fluid topped up and run with manual steering, but hey, if you were running a company, you would push for us to get it fixed to. The to Williams auto electrical, return the starter, that was about a 45 minute wait. Poor old guy didn’t know how to use the debit machine. “damn computers” lol. Then we stop in at supercheap auto…. And…. Drumroll….. no parts. Dammit. Onto a campsite in town now. Forgot the name, but they wont forget us. Lol. Me ... read more

We spend the morning chatting with Charlie and end up leaving around lunchtime after filling up at Coen (no credit card machine so I have to use up the last of the cash we have) the journey starts agian. We are only a few kms out of Coen when we notice Tank feels funny. Oh no we got another puncture! This time it is a little different though as there seem to be a lot more people around on their way up into the Cape, even though we don't actually need anyones help this time. Shenton gets the spare tyre (that has only just been fixed at the Tip) back on Tank and we are off again. Shenton wants to find some fishing and we stop at the Archer River Roadhouse but we seem to have ... read more

Day 40 Today starts off somewhat okay, with the thoughts of skydiving in the back of our heads we are starting to get excited but first on the list is for Me and Jackie to swing into innsfail to get a new set of rear tires, Cooper allterains 170 each installed, I can live with that. We pull off that old Toyota tire, which was ready to let all the tread fly off at any minute, upon further inspection it’s a split rim to.. oh my, safety first. We drop the Toyota tire off at buddies house with a note of thanks and some cash, there are some nice people out here. But now it was onto the real challenge of the day, could we jump out of an airplane… After searching for 30 minutes we ... read more

Day 38 Welcome to Cairns, its time to start booking tours and get the adrenaline pumping through our viens. Whitewater - Check Bungy - Check 14000ft Skydive - Check Minjin Swing - Check Lets do it!!! NO fear! ... read more