During the last night in Cairns, Charlene has a spooky incident when she woke up to see a stranger fumbling around the dorm, dressed in the building gear. Charlene initially thought the stranger was Ashley so she screeched at him and tried to get his attention only to be greeted with a bemused look which by then the penny dropped for very embarrassed Charlene! Since our hostel were just 10 minutes away from the airport, we had a quite bit of time on our hands ...

We woke up to find our luck with the weather had dramatically changed with sun shining outside. It is an excellent timing for our visit to Great Barrier Reef on Green Island. We went to the pier to join other tourists waiting for the ferry to take us to Green Island. Unusually, the only way to access the island is by a commercial run tour operator's ferries rather than a public ferry. Luckily as a part of the package we were given snorkels, goggles and flipper...

With our options rapidly running out, we woke up today with no plan. The original plan was to head for Lagoon and sunbathe because of the sheer lack of stuff to do but the poor weather ended our sunbathing aspirations so we hung out in the hostel doing nothing. Eventually we banged our heads together and went for a walk around the town. We found a famous market called Rustys but it were closed so we just went in few shops. We then explored the Harbour to famila...

We got up and got in our car which is Kia Rio which is an automatic car which we collected last night, after a spell of harsh braking by Charlene, she eventually got used to the car and we were off to Kuranda, a colourful and tropical town stationed deep inside the mountains. Once we arrived, we had a look around the market and it felt as we were whisked into Fiji, the market had a strong hippy influence on it with many stalls selling handmade handicrafts and w...

We woke up and thought we were transported back to England for a second, it were quite rainy outside so we slacked around along with some other travellers before deciding to go to discounted retail warehouse, the walk took us good 20 minutes. We had a quick lunch when we arrived there before starting our browsing-soon enough I started to play on my Angry Birds game on my mobile which is a godsend sometimes on this trip. There were many stores with discounted p...