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So we finally arrived in Australia, very exciting, well I thought so anyway. The best welcome for me was over the intercom, at 3am, at Darwin airport, waiting for our transfer to Cairns, came a really loud, friendly, Australian voice saying 'WELCOME TO DARWIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT' (you probably had to be there, but I enjoyed it).
Our arrival into Cairns wasn't so friendly. With their strict customs procedures Emilys photo frame from our elephant ride was confiscated (it was made of elephant poo, apparently that's protected?!). We had our bags scanned again, and Emily's searched, bit worrying, but we weren't the only ones.
We stayed in the popular Gilligans Backpackers, which was massive.We were in Cairns for a week but not really sure how we filled the time here. Some of it was spent figuring out our plans for travelling the East Coast. We had a plan to hire a campervan to do it, but that was soon scrapped as there were no campers left as everyone had the same idea. We booked ourselves on the Premier bus and on a few trips and some accommodation.
The main event of Cairns (apart from dancing on the tables in the Woolshed) was diving the Great Barrier Reef. We went out on a day trip and luckily it was a lot better weather than Thailand so we could actually see. We went down with a guide still and a small group. I personally freaked out again getting under the water for the first time, thinking I couldn't breathe, but just took me few secs to get used to it again. We saw lots of fish, something called a pineapple something (very useful info) and a turtle!! We hired an underwater camera and took that with us so got a few pics.
The rest of our activities involved our first experiences of Goon (cheaped boxed wine), visiting the infamous Woolshed, eating a lot of pizza and not watching 'The Beach'.
We also spent a lot of time at the lagoon which they have in a lot of towns in Queensland, owing to the fact you can't swim in the sea because of jellyfish.
Our first bus trip was to Maggie Island..
Kerry xxx
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