Ok, so we left Cairns finally! We were still a bit nervous that the floodwaters would still be quite high after watching the news on the morning we left, but all the web reports on the roads said they were open - so off we went with our armbands at the ready. The drive from Cairns to Innisfail was fine, we could see an obvious water line on the banks of the rivers we passed, there was a lot of debris still on the road but nothing to bad. In Innisfail it's self w...

Cairns It was raining when we touched down in Cairns, and it didn't really stop for the whole week and a half that we were there! Anyway, we booked ourselves on to a boat trip the the Great Barrier Reef and hoped for better weather. The weather out at sea on the reef was a lot better than inland but the visibility was still quite poor due to the massive amounts of rain that had fallen over the last week or so. We soon donned our very sexy stinger suits (made us ...