Finally today is day that we have been waiting for! Yes it's Great Barrier Reef. We need to leave our hostel at around 8ish and catch the ferry at 8.30ish. So we got up at 7ish to get everything ready, put our gears in bags, snacks etc. The weather is already looking good. It was no problem getting to the dock. We got on the boat and got a good seat with specular views, we collected our snorkelling gears as it was included on our ticket. We saw the island from mi...

We woke up quite late today, because we don't really have any plans for today, as Cairns is not that big. As we left our cairns, we just let the day go on the flow. We went to Crazy Bargain Store where we found the exactly same bed basket as Cookie's back at England (see picture). We thought and miss Cookie dearly. We then moved on to Cairns town to have a bit of shopping etc. The hostel do provide us a free shuttle bus to town, but we walked to town every time a...

As we agreed to go to road trip around the countryside of Cairns. We got up and got ready etc, we need to make start, the earlier the better. As we got very tight schedule ahead the day, the places to visit. Before i start, you will notice a letter with star*** - this is because i forget how spell the places! Ill update those words when i get back to UK. We set off Cairns for K*******, for a browsing around the village also the famous hertigate market. The villag...

As we was hoping to spend our time at the Lagoon area, to sunbath, read our book and to have a swim. But the weather looks quite miserable - quite cloudy and raining. So we decided to walk to the DFO (Direct Factory Outlet) shopping centre. We thought it was near to our hostel, so we walked, and walked, it was 40 minutes away! But as least we had our carbonate burned! As we entered the shopping centre, we already see plenty of '80% off' or 'Sale' signs. They has ...

Like I said yesterday that we would need to pick up our hire Hyundai Getz at 9am. So we need to get up and get ready, have breakfast etc. Charlene and Asher went to the hire car office to sort out the paper work etc. The rest of us caught up 15 minutes later. As we arrived the office, the car was ready to jet us off to Port Douglas! So we got in the car, it was very first time for Charlene to drive at abroad. Off we went, we didn't need Sat-Nav as the direction t...