 | Cairns to Magnetic Island
2007-03-16, Cairns, Australia. By: claire137 | | Caught our plane to Cairns where yet again it was raining when we arrived! Not had much luck with weather so far. Went out to meet Chris who we met on our Darwin to Alice Springs tour. The city centre... |
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 | Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef
2007-03-12, Cairns, Australia. By: sarahnstu | | On Monday 12th March we got up at stupid o clock to catch our 7am flight from Sydney to Cairns. We had a nice smooth flight with Jet star which only took 3 hours. We had been warned this wasn’t the be... |
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 | Cape Trib, Port Douglas ... Dougies!
2007-03-26, Cairns, Australia. By: sej | | Well, I'm here again in Cairns after going to Cape Tribulation for 3 days and Port Douglas for a day.
Starting with Cape Trib. Such a lovely place. The journey there wasn't so interesting with a bo... |
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 | Adventure Diver!! Woo Hoo
2007-03-20, Cairns, Australia. By: sej | | I'm fully Padi Open Water certified now, and I've done the Adventure course so I've gone 1 level further and I can dive in deeper water. Got sea sick for the first time and ended up throwing up for 3 ... |
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 | Up to Carins and back down
2007-03-07, Cairns, Australia. By: nickflav | | Right haven't updated for a while as Ive been to lazy. So here is whats been happening. Left Town of 1770 and traveled north to Airlie beach. This was a small town thats the base for sailing trips to ... |
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 | Cairns
2007-01-20, Cairns, Australia. By: EMalyon | | Well, we have had a great time in Cairns, spent alot of time relaxing by the pool and lagoon in town. We have done a couple of day trips out, the first one was with a "steve Irwin " style guide - but ... |
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 | Great Barrier Reef
2007-01-19, Cairns, Australia. By: mhollier | | Am coming to the end of our time here in Cairns:( We had a great day out on 'Uncle Brians' trip. We were taken to the local national park, consisting of the Tablelands, where we enjoyed (you guessed i... |
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| Hot Cairns!
2007-01-13, Cairns, Australia. By: mhollier | | Flew up to Cairns on 10/01/07 and already suffering from heat exhaustion! Its reaching 32 most days so you can imagine there is a lot of swimming going on! Staying at Bohemia Resort, which is a backpa... |
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| Sydney - Cairns
2007-01-13, Cairns, Australia. By: emalyon | | Well, after a fab new year in sydney including staying at Bondi beach, taking a trip to manly and having a tour inside the opera house we then got a very early flight up to cairns on the 10.1. The tem... |
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 | Cairns for Christmas and New Year
2006-12-24, Cairns, Australia. By: wilsol01 | | We arrived in Cairns on 23 December and after quite a few weeks in limited civilisation we decided we'd pass some time going to the cinema. Eragon was our choice of film - mmm! I will say they've got ... |
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 | HAPPY NEW YEAR....
2007-01-04, Cairns, Australia. By: lyndz | | ...to all our friends, family, and anyone else who has been following us round the globe.
Well, that's it readers, once again, in the words of the legendary philosopher, Jim Bowen - "in the time i... |
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 | Ice cream and tourist shops
2006-11-23, Cairns, Australia. By: Retski | | .....and the headline basically tells you everything there is to tell about Cairns.
It was quite depressing to leave Brisbane and go to a new town that didn't have all the friends and familiar thing... |
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| Great Barrier Reef
2006-10-26, Cairns, Australia. By: leahtravel | | Yesterday we went on a snorkling trip to the reef. swam with a Sea turtle!!!!!!!!!!!! I got some good pictures of him too with the underwater camera. We had to give back our van yesterday :( that was ... |
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 | It's a small world... it really is!!
2006-10-11, Cairns, Australia. By: lizelliott | | This is incredible. I've met a girl this morning, staying in the same hostel as me, who is from Wootten and knows my friends from Bristol (from the band) and even went to school with some of them!!!! ... |
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| I've found a nice palm tree
2006-10-10, Cairns, Australia. By: lizelliott | | It's very quiet now that the tour's ended. I've spent the last couple of days lounging around. I've found a great spot by the sea with a palm tree where I can read. I can also watch the planes taking ... |
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| Skyrail, Daintree and plughole experiment
2006-10-06, Cairns, Australia. By: lizelliott | | Friday, the last day with everyone on the tour, we piled into the bus to get the skyrail (cable car) up to Kuranda in the rainforest. Sitting in the cable car reminded me of skiing. There were some sp... |
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 | Jumping out of a plane (for fun???!!!)
2006-10-05, Cairns, Australia. By: lizelliott | | Thursday - the most terrifying day ever. Myself, and three others (Meera, Lisa and Arjen) boarded the bus that would take us to our doom. We were taken to the centre, kitted out and went through what ... |
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| Diving on the Great Barrier Reef
2006-10-04, Cairns, Australia. By: lizelliott | | On Wednesday, went on board 'Passons of Paradise' to the Great Barrier Reef. At Michaelmas Cay, went for two dives. On the first dive, there were 5 of us including the instructor. My mask got foggy, s... |
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 | Cairns Recap #2
2006-09-07, Cairns, Australia. By: adamr15 | | Ok,,back to the story..
After partying myself stupid..I decided it was time to take a break from drinking and signed up for a scuba diving course. It was a 5 day course: 2 days in training in a ti... |
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| Cairns Recap!
2006-09-02, Cairns, Australia. By: adamr15 | | Ok, I know I have been a little late on my updates but I'm going to catch-up on all of my tales and adventures starting....NOW!!
So I arrived in Cairns on Saturday, August 25th at 8:00 with no w... |
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 | The Heat!
2006-09-05, Cairns, Australia. By: Newcombe | | So we've been in Carins now for nearly 3 weeks, and we're loving it! The only thing is...the heat, it's too hot, it never drops below like 23, even at night!! I'm dying, but we're job hunting now an... |
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 | The whitsundays and Bungy-jumping!
2006-07-15, Cairns, Australia. By: rdougall | | Hi everyone,
Not long left now till im home, has gone so so fast i cant believe its almost over.
Last time i wrote i believe i was in Noosa sunning my self....... Got back on my oz bus, had a re... |
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 | Happy Canada Day
2006-07-01, Cairns, Australia. By: Lexy | | Hello Canadians and those of you who wish you were (just joking!)
It was a beautiful day here in Australia and I was thinking about how much fun you'll all have tomorrow celebrating 139 years of ou... |
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| Rafting
2006-06-25, Cairns, Australia. By: Lexy | | Hey folks,
Well, I had quite a big day yesterday. I went white water rafting on the Tully river, about 2 hours from Cairns. I had never been rafting before, so I had no idea of what to expect. Ther... |
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