After a few catch up drinks with Lou and Andrew awoke to a very steamy Cairns day. Spent the day relaxing - much needed after 30 hours of driving over 3 days to get there. Treated ourselves to some lovely prawns - not so lovely for Richie - because of course he has to peel them all!! Yummy. Explored a bit of the Cairns waterfront - very impressive little bar/restaurant - oriental in style where we partook in a couple of top up beers.
Relaxing day, good friends, good food, great drinkies.
Monday 6th December 2011
Lay Day. Caught up on bits of wedding planning etc. Planned our trip for Tuesday. Very steamy in Cairns - easy to do very little.
Tuesday 7th December 2011
Set off in the morning to the Daintree. Nice drive from Cairns along the coast - arrived at the ferry crossing to get to the Discovery Centre. This is the most expensive ferry in the world. $21 return of a 2 minute boat trip. They dont even have to steer the boat - it is on a rope. You cant get out of the car - not that there would be much point as the 2 minutes goes very quickly.
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| Most Expensive Ferry in the WORLD |
The Discover centre is fab. We hired the commentary phones that you dial the respective number and get the info on all the flora, fauna,wildlife etc as you walk around. We we hoping to see the Cassowary Bird but were not so lucky. The closest we got was this statue:
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| Mel with the Cassawary |
Off for a swim - Richie very excited about the pool here (Airlie Beach). More Blogging later!!
Back for some early morning Blogging - swimming soon!
Drove to Daintree village - very small, just a few little shops. It was at least 40 degrees in the shade, sent a postcard to the Mum's - it is nice to get mail! Headed to Port Dougals to the Court House Hotel. Sammy works for these guys - so thought we would check it out. Just a quick drink and looksee. Cool place. Not much competition in the area - they should rake it in!! Sorry we didnt say hello to Bianca - Sammy - tell her next time - we will definately be back!!
Back to Cairns for swim in the pool at Lou and Andrews. The pool there is great, the girls in the photo below have promised to come back at New Year for Deno!
Wednesday 8th December 2011
Blog day. Spent most of the day setting up this Blog to share our road trip, xmas, nz, and wedding with you all!! 3 network VERY slow in Cairns and new technology for Rich and myself so yes took most of the day. Headed out to the shops - got some lovely lamb that I had every intention of cooking for Lou and Andrew - however it is always a challenge cooking for good chefs. So Andrew kindly offered - offer accepted! Great BBQ and last little drinkies until Feb with these guys. Thanks again for having us - it was fun!
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| Lou and Andrew - at home in Cairns |
PS - Thanks so much for having AUSTAR - Rich is now officially addicted. I am hoping that he doesn't make a habit of taking photos of video clips - like the lovely image above!
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