G'Day Guys Today has been the most amazing day and well worth the 6am start!!! We boarded our vessel at 730am in the marina and were heading towards the Great Barrier Reef at 8am. It took just over 2 hours to reach our first destination at Michelmas Cay where we dropped anchor and decided to go for a scuba dive. Once the safety checks were completed we sank down into the crystal blue water to explore the underwater world. Emma our guide took us onto the reef an...

G'Day Guys Here it is Blog No 104. There are plenty of things to do from Cairns as you can tell and today was no exception with our trip to Tjapukai (pronnounced Jabaky) the cultural heritage centre. It is just on the outskirts of the city and once inside you are firstly shown a video on how the culture has been lost down the years due to the white man colonising the country, it is a sad story but ends on a happy note with stories of future generations and their...

G'Day Well our time in Cairns is whizzing by so fast and the days are so jam packed. We have had another day out today to Kuranda. After being dropped at the Caravonica terminal outside Cairns we boarded the Skyrail for our 7.5km (4.5 miles) trip to the town of Kuranda. The trip is done in 2 sections, firstly its the the short 2.8km section to Red Peak Station over the top of the forest canopy looking down into the rainforest it is pretty amazing. Once we disemb...

G'Day Sports Today we have been further North to Cape Tribulation and back. As usual our tour started bright and early and off we drove up the Cook Highway (named after James Cook,the explorer) to our first stop of the day which was a beautiful piece of rainforest at Mossman Gorge. We took a brisk 30 minute walk under the canopy and across a suspension bridge to complete the circuit. Australian rainforest covers only 0.1% of the continent so is very special. We...

G'Day Not too much to report today as it has been more of a doing day than a seeing day. Tried to lie in but still got up at 8.30 yes I know its late to some of you but we are bums now lazing around and enjoying life!!! Once up Mel organised our next 4 days in Cairns with various things to do including Cape Tribulation, Karunda Railway, Tjapukai aboriginal experience and the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday so that is why we needed the lie in today!!!! Took a le...