Cairns Travel Blogs

Rain Rain and Rain!!! The idea was going to the beach and get a color before I go to New Zealand, but I have to change my plan I guess. About 8.30am we had to be at the mole to get the boat the Apolly Cay. That's a small sand Island in the Great Barrier Reef. The weather was really bad so I was thi…

Een nieuwe dag, een nieuwe tour. Tja, het leven is zwaar als je reist. Als eerste bezochten we de Cathedral Fig Tree. De boom in het midden is al honderde jaren dood, hij is namelijk "gestikt" door de andere boom. In de buurt van deze boom, die er heel mooi uitziet maar eigenlijk niks waard is (fin…

Today I went white-water rafting on the Tully River.  My raft (Team F-Yeah) consisted of me, Louise (Aussie), Kristy (NY), Adam (UK), Andrew and Craig (Canadians) and our Kiwi guide Sunny.  The river had huge rapids and we flipped our boat several times.  I have so many bruises, …

After dragging ourselves out of bed, Rachel and I checked out of the Serpent Hostel just before 10am. While we were loading our luggage back into the car, we tried to figure out what we should do to kill time before we could check in at the hotel in Kuranda after 3pm. We agreed it would be a ve…

I have to describe last night's events for you to fully appreciate this morning's craziness. I met up with Curt, the Canadian guy from the dive trip at a bar at 7:30. After going to get some sketchy chinese food (and after my even sketchier $15 chinese massage) we went to a pub called the Wool Shed…

Well, I'm here in Down Under. Land of the kangeroos, koala bears, Tasmanian devils, worlds most venomous snakes, huge saltwater crocodiles, box jellyfishes, Uluru rock, Aboriginals, vegemite and Kylie Minogue.How attempting this all might sound to you, it's really not that easy to get here. It took…

We could only stay the one night at Adobe Motels as they were fully booked for the next night; our final night in Cairns, in Australia in fact for this visit. We decide it would be rather nice to go out for breakfast on the waterfront of Cairns, so we drove down to the docks at the begining of the …

Brian, Steph and myself took off on a sailing vessil to the Great Barrier Reef to do some diving.  It was a nice ride out there, on the way we saw some dolphins swimming next to the boat, we also learned what we needed to go diving since it was all our first time diving.  It really isn't …

Coincidence or not, I was walking around in Cairns and had this tune in my head, singing the same words when I noticed the shop and the sign above it. So, another musical moment captured in time Nirvana - Dive Uhg. Pick Me, Pick me, yeahLet a long, low signalAt ease, at least, yeahEveryone is hol…

Today we  were going to find Nemo - we were going snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef. We arrived at the marina just before 8.30am, and after some initial confusion over where to check in, we boarded our boat, the 'Reef Quest.' It seemed like an organised boat; we signed disclaimers (wh…

Just finished diving the Great Barrier Reef.  I actually did NOT go out last night as I was spent from traveling yesterday and wanted to be well rested for my dive trip.  Overall, it was a really cool experience... I found Nemo (lots of 'em) and got to see lots of other things as well (i.…

Photos from my semester abroad at the University of Sydney.

We arrived in Cairns late into the evening. Surprising we were not held up by customs at all, despite both wearing and declaring our muddy walking boots. We were greeted by thunderstorms, that lasted during our stay in Cairns. We had expected the hot, humid weather - but the thunder and lightning w…

Early in the morning, I took the travel tour bus to have a hot air balloon tour. It's the first time I do this, which made me feel excited. But the drawback is: I had to get up very early at about 3:30AM. So I doze off on the bus until we arrived at the destination.   There were t…

Australia is one of my favourite countries on the planet, and I've been there countless times! In 2004 my family went on a trip to Cairns, and there was just so much to do. We went hot-air ballooning, horseriding, parasailing and of course shopping, and I had tons of fun. Here are the pictures!