 | Our days in Cairns
2009-06-23, Cairns, Australia. By: jeannine | | Hello there. I'm sitting here in balmy Cairns watching the sugar cane train roll by. Have just been to an open air movie with the kids to see "Space Chimps" which was a big hit!
To back track...o... |
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 | Diving on the Great Barrier Reef
2009-05-22, Cairns, Australia. By: edculpin | | To end my epic journey up the east coast of Australia i went on a day cruise from Cairns out to the Great Barrier Reef.
-approximately 344,400 square kilometres
-can be seen from outer space
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 | Last few days in Oz
2009-04-30, Cairns, Australia. By: Sassy | | I thought when we got to Cairns the early mornings would be over, but no, our bus came to collect us at 7.15am to take us on our trip to the Daintree Tropical Rainforest. We had a walk though Cape Tri... |
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| Brisbane to Cairns
2009-04-19, Cairns, Australia. By: Sassy | | We caught the Fraser Dawn across to Moon Point on Fraser Island, this was a beach landing and the bus then drove onto the ferry to take us off on our exploration of the largest sand island in the worl... |
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 | Port Douglas back to Cairns Detour
2009-03-10, Cairns, Australia. By: sayer | | We started off early this morning and drove north to Mossman Gorge where we walked through 2km of rainforest and saw some pretty amazing trees and lakes. We then headed to Kuranda where we went to see... |
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| G'day mate!!!
2009-03-07, Cairns, Australia. By: sayer | | We arrived in Cairns after a short change over in Darwin and left to pick up our campervan!!! The camper van is cosy with everything we need including a fridge, microwave and gas stove. Our living roo... |
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 | Cairns in the Tropics!
2009-02-14, Cairns, Australia. By: nunns | | Arrived in Cairns in yet another heatwave! We can almost feel how sorry you feel for us!
Our digs for this 3 day stay is a nice apartment with full facilities – time to get some overdue washing don... |
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 | Problems
2008-10-22, Cairns, Australia. By: osukels | | Hello All!
Some problems have occured with this journal, so I have started a new one. Please contact me for the address of the new journal.
Thanks so much! |
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 | 11th - 18th Apr 08
2008-04-11, Cairns, Australia. By: smurfy22 | | Hey all,
Well....where do I start?! We finally arrived in Cairns on the 11th and it's been a bit of a busy week since then!
Miko & I met up with Anna (Smale) last Saturday & we have been on a c... |
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 | Goodbye Jackie *tear
2008-05-18, Cairns, Australia. By: regnmanda | | After a two and a half week trip to Australia Jackie sadly was on her way back home. Thankfully, a couple days before she left we made a trip out to the Great Barrier Reef. After we had sat an hour ... |
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 | Week fifteen - Cairns
2008-05-26, Cairns, Australia. By: rabbitts | | Monday was goodbye Peanut day after I had to wake him up when he managed slept through his alarm. I did get an appreciative thank you for ensuring that he didn't miss his 3 days on the diving boat ev... |
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 | Week fourteen - Melbourne - Cairns
2008-05-19, Cairns, Australia. By: rabbitts | | The week started with a 00:25 Tiger Airways flight from Perth to Melbourne which landed at 6:00. I checked into King Street Backpackers at 10:00 feeling rather tired from having been up all night and... |
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 | The attack of the killer BAT FISH!
2008-05-19, Cairns, Australia. By: j2dewar | | Hello everyone!
Okay so..our Reef trip!
We started out VERY early as we had to be at the boat dock for 7:00 to meet our boat! When we got there we were greeted by the crew and thought we were ... |
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 | CRIKEY CROCODILES!
2008-05-10, Cairns, Australia. By: j2dewar | | Hello everyone!
Well we have been having a great time! I am still scooping icecream and the weather is still great!
A few days ago we rented a car for a day and did a day trip from Cairns on m... |
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 | The great barrier reef!
2008-05-02, Cairns, Australia. By: j2dewar | | Hello everyone! Sorry I havent written in a while!
We have been busy enjoying Cairns and I have been buisy scooping ice cream at baskin robbins for the tourists! We have rented bikes and been usin... |
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| MMM....Ice cream :o)
2008-04-16, Cairns, Australia. By: j2dewar | | Hello everyone!
Well we moved into our new place two days ago! We love it! Since the other room is not occupied at the moment we have the whole complex to ourselves which is great! We have a big k... |
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 | REALLY BIG SPIDERS!
2008-04-12, Cairns, Australia. By: j2dewar | | Hello everyone!
Okay well Magnetic island was nice but not all it was cracked up to be! It was nice and we went on a fort walk up into the forest where there were some ruined forts from world war ... |
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 | Brisbane, via Airlie Beach and Rockhampton.
2008-03-17, Cairns, Australia. By: lizzy86 | | We have made it to Brisbane now, it is nice to be in a city..there are a lot less spiders and bugs here! We left cairns behind us on tuesday after a rather sleepless night follow the hunt of various c... |
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 | The Great Barrier Reef
2008-03-18, Cairns, Australia. By: Laura85 | | We went on a boat trip to the Great Barrier Reef on Monday. Apart from sea sickness (quite a bit of it!) on the way there and back it was a rather spectacular scene. We got to snorkel over two sites... |
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 | Great Barrier Reef!
2008-03-17, Cairns, Australia. By: eme86 | | I have obviously arrived in Oz! The flight over was barely enjoyable, we had a stop over at Darwin so couldnt get much sleep and we had no tv. But the view out the window was lovely, so many stars in ... |
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| We have arrived in oz!
2008-03-17, Cairns, Australia. By: lizzy86 | | Today i went scuba diving on the great barrier reef, it was AMAZING! I saw a turtle and various amazing looking fishes, no sharks thankfully. We had to be up early to get the bus to the boat, the boat... |
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 | Last week in Oz
2007-11-15, Cairns, Australia. By: hamsouth | | Jans parents finally arrived so we enjoyed our last week in Oz with them visting the sights that we hadn't seen with a hire car.one day we went up to Daintree to go on a croc river tour,unfortunately ... |
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 | Jans Birthday
2007-11-05, Cairns, Australia. By: hamsouth | | Well Jans finally reached 26 and we celerbriated in style by flying over the Great Barrier Reef on a scenic tour, what a fantastic way to see the reef this was. We as divers really enjoyed diving it b... |
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 | The cars gone back to walking again
2007-10-25, Cairns, Australia. By: hamsouth | | Well, we have finally made it to cairns and are now on the last part of our trip in Oz.We had only been here 3 days when we managed to sell the car for a little more than we expected, which was a bloo... |
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 | The whitsundays -cairns
2007-10-12, Cairns, Australia. By: hamsouth | | After afew more days of travel we met up again with Flick and Charles and stayed afew days in the Whitsundays it was really beautiful here and we spent much of our time around the man made lagoon ,it ... |
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 | First day
2007-10-04, Cairns, Australia. By: franandtom | | So it was up early again to get another flight, getting very sick of flying! And now we're in Cairnes! We've finally found the sun :D we've arrived at our hostel, the Calypso inn and have completely f... |
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 | Northern Beaches
2007-09-15, Cairns, Australia. By: tonyandbex | | We spent a day on the way back to The Atherton Tablelands at the beaches just north of Cairns. These are totally spectacular and away from the hussle and bussle of Cairns. We walked on the beaches a... |
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 | Everyday would be a Holiday from Real
2007-09-22, Cairns, Australia. By: mikegagnon | | Welcome welcome to Cairns Australia. I've been here about a week now and I think it was time to stop being kind to my body and start abusing it once again. Calling liver... Attention please... Day... |
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 | What the???????
2007-09-05, Cairns, Australia. By: susiey | | I really Have to get used to this! i have tried to get into my own site for ten minutes.... who am I? what is my password? It didn't seem difficult when we set it up!
Phil is doing a wonderful job ... |
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| Where it all Started
2007-08-27, Cairns, Australia. By: SusieY | | a long time ago, in a gymnasium on the Gold Coast, while grieving over the loss of Australia to England in the World Cup Rugby, a plan was hatched over a few sorry wines... and the Clark Rugby Tour wa... |
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 | Just hit Aus
2007-06-17, Cairns, Australia. By: kirmish | | So close but yet so far away.
I still can't believe it's all over. |
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 | Camping out in the rainforest
2007-05-11, Cairns, Australia. By: cmciver | | On the 11th of May, the day after our balloon ride we set off to Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation.
On the way we drove through the exclusive millionaires playground of Port Douglas an... |
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 | Adrenaline filled Cairns
2007-05-08, Cairns, Australia. By: cmciver | | After getting all cuddly with the Koalas and Snakes of Magnetic Island we climbed aboard a greyhound bus and headed for Cairns. Prior to leaving Brisbane we had booked the Raging YHA Cairns package fo... |
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 | GoodBye Oz Experience :(
2007-03-03, Cairns, Australia. By: cherryloo | | Our bus ride to Cairns is our last ever journey on the Oz experience. We are very sad but we still have a week left in Cairns so the fun isnt over yet. The bus driver plays the worst songs to try and ... |
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