Having accomplished our Barrier Reef trip, there was little left to do in Cairns. We weren’t terribly fond of our new hostel whose staff were that bit too friendly to seem genuine. It also proved to be a lot noisier, and while they did provide a shuttle bus, it just wasn’t frequent enough to be [...]
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Great Barrier Reef – chance of a lifetime
November 7th, 2009 · No Comments · travel
No visit to Cairns would be complete without a trip to the Great Barrier Reef – the world’s largest coral reef. A large chunk of Cairn’s tourist industry is dedicated to this natural wonder. On my sister’s recommendation I booked with the company she had used for a trip that would take us further out [...]
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Cairns – eat, run, shop, drop
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · travel
We spent a few days in Cairns relaxing and settling into some kind of routine. Cairns is a large and lively town with good access to the Barrier Reef. It’s big enough to have plenty of nightlife but not the traffic congestion of a large city. Our first night we merely stumbled across the road [...]
Cairns – tilt all the way
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · travel
Aside from using Airlie Beach as a base for visiting the Whitsundays, we didn’t do a whole lot else there. The strip along the beach is there for the sole purpose of earning tourist dollars. We went into town for our evening meals, but steered clear of it apart from that. As we sat on [...]
Whitsundays – this one’s all about the destination
November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · travel
Our second trip around the Whitsunday Islands was vastly different to the first. This was our purely tourist tour to the must-see destination of Whitehaven Beach. How we got there was less important. Which isn’t to say that we wouldn’t have loved to travel there on the Domino, but unfortunately the only option for doing [...]
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