Cairns

Arrived in Cairns on the 11th May and stayed at Dreamtime travellers hostel, 5 mins from esplanade, the guy Chris at reception is really fab and organises everything for you cheaply so we got stuck in as soon as we got there and starting spending some money!! lol Then headed out to the local - The Woolshed, an old happy haunt and met an old friend just outside out after many beers!!

The first day out and about and we booked onto our boat trip out in the reef on a boat called Ocean Free, it wasnt free but fish certainly got fed as the weather wasnt the greatest and lets just say i had to pass on lunch, didnt talk for a while and ger did a bit of back rubbing... so when we arrived at Green island i was very glad to be on terra firma..!

The weather picked up by lunchtime and the rest of the trip was fab and captain Andy and his crew were a good laugh as well and were handing out wine on our trip home for the sunset so Ger got stuck in..

The following day we travelled up the coast by bus to Cape Tribulation to stay up there for the night and signed up for some Jungle Surfing ( thanks to our friends at Intel's generous leaving present..) We stayed in a place called PK's jungle village and it was just as i had remembered it, spiders, a lot of trees and drinking..but great beach

On the way up we did the Daintree river crossing for some crocodile spotting and i found out that the croc "Gummy" that was there 9 years ago has since been run out of town by "big Albert" and is now in retirement from biting the bottom of the boats! After this we headed into the rainforest which was cool, but no cassawaries to be seen..class scenery though and loads of butterflies that are both female and male..handy?!?! Oh and Ger spotted a car he fancied...

That evening we got picked up after checking into the accomodation and went up into the jungle canopies for some jungle surfing... it was class - basically they hooked you all up and then you zip wired through all the trees at very high reaches..and you got to wear some funky headwear with very apt names on! lol
Check out the photos it was absolutely brilliant and hilarious too as they made us go upside down and everything..Ger definitely conquered his fear of heights..haha

We headed back to Cairns the following morning via the rainforest lookout, mossman gorge and Port Douglas and from the lookout you were able to see the place that Steve Irwin got stung.
We had a few hours then to shower and pack up before our overnight bus took us down the coast to Airlie Beach for some Whitsunday Island sailing..