Cairns

Different vibe to Asia immediately on landing, as expected. Couldn’t get an Uber for ages and the price kept going up and up. Was unsettling lol. Very few travellers here so couldn’t pool anywhere from the airport either! Got to hostel, got some pizza and planned the next few days on the terrace. Met Neil from Boston and Jimmy from Taiwan in the room. Neil is a marine biologist working on a boat and Jimmy is a sushi chef which was kinda cool.

Bucket list kinda day - sorted out my sim and booked onto the Great Barrier Reef tour and Daintree tour in the morning before heading to AJ Hackett Skypark for Bungee jumping off a 50 metre platform. After talking it up so much in the past few years, I was actually shitting it when it came to jumping off. This kid also backed out at the top which set the nerves straight in. Joe went first and absolutely wailed as he jumped, then I quickly jumped after but the experience was unlike no other, complete adrenaline. Would DEFINITELY do again but bigger and better next time. Our driver was also the nicest guy, he had so many stories from spear fishing and mining, one of which involved him losing his thumb?!? We came back and chilled with some cards and went swimming in the lagoon before walking down the esplanade. We found this girls phone and managed to get it back to her which was cool after some rough detective work. For dinner we went to Woolworths and grabbed BBQ items and cooked them outside at sunset. Super cool day.

Today was the Great Barrier Reef tour, next to us on the boat were 2 Irish girls Sarah and Emma - finally diving the GBR felt so good and even got to do my first ever self guided dive, even if they did get pissed off that I was under for an extra 13 minutes… for dinner we got schnitzel, played cards with charlie from the Cotswolds and joes roommate Kathryn, before talking politics with Jimmy and Stanley prior to bed.

Tour to Cape Tribulation and Daintree rainforest, the oldest rainforest in the world - Jamie the tour guide was great, met Sarah and Emma from tour yday which was nice, also met jasmine from Ireland who sat next to us on the coach. started off with a viewpoint, then we went to the beach then we went to the watering hole where I proceeded to SLAP my back onto the water trying to do a flip. We went to the board walk then finally we did the croc cruise - full on day but gutted we didn’t see cassowaries. Then we got back and went to chicken on a stick and got a friend chicken donburi, then played some cards with a pint at the bar next door.

10 hour long bus to Airlie beach!Leggi altro