Went into Cairns town in the morning, then at about 2pm we were picked up to go white water rafting.  We went to the Tully river, about half an hours drive from our hostel.Was a glorious afternoon and the scenery was amazing, lots of high clifs and forrest - really lovely.  The rafting was great fun and our guide was really knowledgeable and told us lots of info about the area along the way.  It wasn't a hard course as the water level is l...

Got a catamaran out to Mackay Reef which took about an hour 45mins - we weren't going particularly quickly but I was so sea sick, not good!  Thankfully by the time we dropped anchor i was fine.Jen and I did an introductory scuba dive, just us 2 went down with the instructor for half an hour and it was amazing.  Found it difficult to equalise my ears at first so felt like my head was going to explode!! But managed to get them to pop by the time we go...

Arrived in Cairns at about 7am after an overnight flight from Singapore. We had a half hour stop over in Darwin at about 4am which was only so interesting, but they were showing 'Finding Nemo' on a demo tv which helped to pass the time, especially as i remember watching it over a year ago and really wanting to go to Australia cos it looked cool! Hehe. So was a good intro to our first stop on Australian soil. Our accommodation is really nice and has a pool,...