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Cairns 12th-20th Oct 2006Hey EveroneArrived in Cairns on 12th Oct and it was raining. Typical!!. Got to Gilligans backpackers around 8:30am to check in. Ingeniously, I had booked the night before so that when I arrived I wouldn't have to hang about until 2pm to get to my room. Unfortunately some plank had forgotton to make a note of this and they had checked me out for not showing up on the 11th. Typicall!!. That went down well, but I showed them the voucher detailing what I'd already paid for and they sorted it out, and gave me a room, or so I thought. Got woken by the cleaners at 1pm telling me that I'd been put in the wrong room, so had to go and sort it out again before eventually ending up in the right one later on in the afternoon.Magic!!. Any way spent the first few days chilling out down by the lagoon and hitting what little beach there was at Cairns, and catching as much sun as possible as every afternoon it would rain, pretty much on que around 5ish. Weird!!Went Kayaking around Fitzroy island on the 16th which was great. White sandy beaches, turquoise blue waters. Beautiful. Funnily enough it rained then as well for about 1/2 an hour, but the sun soon came out in time for snorkelling round the reef where I was able to check out loads of amazing fish, and a giant clam, which was cool. No pearl in it though, or is that oysters?, I've no idea..Had a couple of fellas join me over the last couple of days which was good so we've been out on the razz a couple of times.On the 17th, I went up to a place called Cape Tribulation in the rainforest north of Cairns. Pretty amazing place where we walked through the rainforest avoiding deadly plants and deadly birds called cassowary's which WILL attack you and dissembowl you by booting you in the stomach, with deadly claws on their feet. Luckily only saw one whilst on the bus, and it crossed the road in front of us. They are HUGE.Thursday was the last night in Cairns so me and the fellas went out on the shant again this time taking two 18 year old birds with us who had arrived in our dorm the night before. They had spent all afternoon drinking wine and were hammered before we even went out. They then spent most of the time pestering us to buy them a drink. We told them to shove it, and so they moved onto pestering anyone else they could find. This must have worked cause the were rolling by the end of the night. Kids eh?Cheers GuysFletch
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