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Hello everyone, here we are in Cairns......taking advantage of free internet....every litttle helps!!!! So we arrived here from Perth last Wednesday after a flight via Melbourne and Brisbane. Only stayed in the airport tho!!! Got off the plane and we both thought we were back in Thailand, very similar scenery and climate but very different culture!!! Staying in a wicked backpackers, free breakfast, free dinner, free buses to town!!!! Chilled out the first day, got wasted the first night, very cheap!!!! Second day decided to explore the city, a nice place, very old fashioned though!!! Went down to the 'Lagoon' on the seafront, its a manmade swimming area because you can't swim in the sea in and Cairns because of saltwater crocodiles and killer jellyfish, how mad is that!!!!!!!!! Went out in town on Friday night....great fun!!!! I went to the toilet and by complete chance bumped in to one of theSwedish girls we met at the very start of our Thailand adventure, small world hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday we stepped up our tourism skills.....decided to hire a car!!! In the name of saving money we hired an old Hyundai Excel, an absolute beast....check the photos!!!!! Dave looked like a complete bad boy a the wheel, we truley were riding dirty!!!!!!!!!!!!We decided to go on a bit of a roadtrip!!!! Accompanied by the Swedish girls!!!! It was a better and cheaper way to explore up the coast!!! Drove to the rainforest, which was brill, real thick rainforest, gorges, rock pools, waterfalls!!!! Then visited Port Douglas and all the way up the coast to a place called Cape Tribulation, all great scenery. However like all our other major days out it rained, alot and very hard!!!! Only downside was we didn't see any crocs!!!!!!! Spent the night (in true roadtrip fashion) sleeping in the car, was much hotter and cramped than we thought tho!!!!!!! Then next day we did some more exploring, more gorges, mountains, rainforest, really great scenery in Northern Queensland, so different to Western Australia in loads of ways!!!! So we spent the next night in the car again, just the boys this time!!!! The seats reclined beautifully!!!!! Woke up to a bearded man's face at the window!!!!!! Thought what the f**k, then realised he was just the rubbish man for the carpark, not a weirdo or dogger!!!! So that brings you up to date!!!Having a two day chill out then starting our journey down the coast..........next stop a place called Mission Beach. Take care all, keep in touch.
Neil and Dave
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