These are fruit bats. They are loaded in certain trees.

Cairns walkabout

October 20, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 24 °C

Successful trip!

Visited the wharf, went to the casino (broke even thanks to Beber), got some groceries, and I finally found a hat for me.

It will make an appearance in later pictures.

Some interesting things about the casino in comparison to ours back home.

Casinos here are Smoke Free!!! Yay!!!!

Casinos here do not have free beverages in self serve areas. Booo!!!

Casinos here still actually kick out coins when you win, and take coins to get them going, so the "coin cups" are there.

About 75% of the slots (known as "pokies" here) are ones that I didn't recognize.

Australia is home to 20% of the world's slot machines. Something I learned on the news just the other day :-)Read more