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Chapter 18 : Waterfall Wanderers –
We had stopped in at the front desk at our hotel, to book a tour for our second day in Cairns. We had decided that we wanted to go on a Tablelands and waterfall tour. We saw a brochure that also bundled the tour with a trip on the Kuranda Railway and Skyrail Rainforest Cableway,…
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Chapter 17 : Another Cairns Evening
After our day long catamaran and snorkeling tour, we decided to go back out and see what else Cairns had to offer. We took a quick stop at the Didge Cafe, to make sure that my favorite didgeridoo hadn’t been purchased. Then, we continued down the promenade, until we made it back down to the…
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Chapter 16 : The Great Barrier Reef –
The day that we had been waiting years for had finally arrived. We were going to go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. I had been told that I would need to shave my mustache, so that my mask would fit securely, so I pulled my plug in electric razor out of the bag.…
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Chapter 15 : Cairns, Kerns, Cans –
Two baked beans are backpacking in Australia. Where do they end up? As soon as we got off the plane, we started talking to one of the locals. She was a woman that was in her upper 50’s. We had mentioned that we couldn’t wait to visit Cairns and she said that she couldn’t wait…
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Chapter 14 : Brisbane City Hopper –
In the morning, we packed up our luggage into the rental car and then walked over to the Dockside Pier, where we would take a quick tour of Brisbane, via The City Hopper. The City Hopper was a free ferry services that I would imagine was used mostly by tourists or people that happened to…
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Chapter 13 : Brisbane Southbank –
About a 10 minute drive from our AirBnb was the Brisbane Southbank. We parked in an underground garage and then took the stairs up to a park area that was decorated for the holidays. We had hoped to get a bit to eat from one of the food court establishments, but unfortunately they were all…
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Chapter 12 : Kangaroo Cliffs/Australia Zoo
When I woke up in the morning, I was psyched to go to the Australia Zoo. It didn’t open until 10am and it was a 90 minute drive. So when we woke up at 7am, I felt like we had plenty of time to walk down to the Kangaroo Cliffs and back, then still be…
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Chapter 11 : Dreamworld –
It was a two hour drive from Lamington National Park to Dreamworld and most of it was down a long winding road through the forest. I had just seen a wallaby on the side of the road and a kangaroo crossing sign, but similarly to our ride up, we were going to be fighting car…
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Chapter 10 : O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat –
The voyage from Surfer’s Paradise to O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat is a long and isolating one. Since we were officially traveling during the off-season, the roads through the Lamington National Park were traffic free, giving us the opportunity to make the best possible time. Unfortunately, the winding turns and proximity to cliff edges made even moderate…