I didn't wake up early enough today to get to the Botanical gardens to start the Blue Arrow walking route at a reasonable time- it takes 4-5 hours and didn't want to finish it when in the dark- so I did the Red arrow route instead, which is the one I did all those months ago when I went with Nomad's. Regardless of it only being 1.5 km, I had forgotten it was still pretty strenuous- there were quite a few steep steps. Ever since going to Kewarra beach on Sunday ...

In between shifts, I went to the 24 hour medical centre to get my stitches out. I had rang up the better doctor's surgery but they said they were really busy until Wednesday. The half hour wait wasn't too bad as I got to read a gossip magazine and watch Ready Steady Cook. Contrary to what people told me it did hurt a bit and it was very reassuring of the doctor to put a plaster on which didn't cover the scar.

I didn't have work until 5 pm this evening, so accompanied Brent (Canadian room-mate) to Kewarra beach. After a spot of sunbathing, I embarrassed myself by attempting to climb the palm tree that was leaning at an angle which loads of kids had been able to climb just before- I wanted a picture at the top of it. I couldn't get up it, and had to hold Brent's hand to walk a tiny bit up the branch before smiling nervously at the camera whilst trying to remain balanced...

Brent, our Canadian roommate, has a hard drive with loads and loads of films on, so I watched Toy Story 3 today. I also researched Papua New Guinea, as Alice had been looking at it and thought it sounded quite good as it is unspoilt by tourism. Apparently there is a bit of rivalry between tribes and violence between them, but Australian media makes it out to be worse than it is, and is very rarely aimed at tourists. It sounds quite cool that you can see tribe vi...

Today was the first day that the Cairns Show was on, so I went there with Aaron and his sister, whose birthday it was. It was in the showground, and consisted of fairground rides, exhibition of livestock (I found it funny that on my day off, I was finding out about beef, and where each cut of meat came form on the cow. I also found the 'sponsored by McDonalds' advert on the chicken cages highly amusing), and a fruit and veg display. I'm not sure how one lemon can...