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Hi everyone!
We arrived in Cairns on friday morning and went off to explore for a bit before we could check in, half alive, as we hadn't slept for 2 days! Gilligans hostel is a 5* backpackers resort, really cool, nice pool and a beer bar which can seat 1000 people! We found a food market which is joined on to the hostel, it gives out free samples of the food, so we stock up on samples for the rest of the day as we're on a budget of $40 a day! On our first day we went to bed at 2 30pm and didn't get up until 5 30pm the next day, we were seriously jet lagged! Had a bit of an exploration of Cairns, found the lagoon and looked at the shops and marina, we didn't realise that there wasn't a beach here, so have planned to get a bus to one on Sunday. We have also booked up 2 trips; one to the reef and an over nighter to Cape Tribulation- where the rainforest meets the great barrier reef.
Today we went to the reef on a 16.5m Schooner and we went to a tropical island called Green Island. The reef was called pinnacle reef and was beautiful with loaaads of big fish and bright corals, after an hours snorkeling we had a smorgasbord lunch and then went over to green island, we had the chance to go back over to the reef to carry on snorkeling but laura and I loved the island so much we wanted to spend the whole afternoon there, looking at the rainforest and just sunbathing on the white sand. Had a really good day but am now a bit sunburnt!
Tomorrows plans are just to lounge about, not do much and check out of Gilligans and head to Shenanigans Hostel and get ready for our rainforest treck on Thursday and Friday, which I will update on you when I'm back, and probably have lots of pictures of that too!
Speak to you soon,
Love you all, Em xxx
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