Cruising Cairns

G'day! How ya goin'? I did not update my blog last night so I'm doing it this morning. Yesterday we went on a 'cruising cairns' tour where we got on this huge double decker bus and drove around to different cool places in Cairns. I had been to a couple of them already but it was still really fun. I got much tanner from sitting on the top half of the bus! You just had to duck for low lying branches.

We went to Trinity Beach, drove past the Skyrail, went to Palm Cove beach, where a life guard talked about jellyfish stings while my friend Colin dove into the water and got stung! Not by any of the really bad ones, just a hair jellyfish, so he only had a big red welt on his arm. It was a nice demonstration to contribute to the presentation.

Next we went back to the lodge oddly enough and had tea. I mean I didn't have tea, just cookies and a 'sausage and bread'. Then we go back onto the bus and drove into Cairns city. We got off the bus near the mud flats and had to get into groups to do a picture scavenger hunt where everyone in our group had to pose in front of certain things. That was fun, we definitely didn't win though. We were rather slow. We didn't have the motivation to run in the heat like some groups did. But I did get some great pictures out of it! We passed by the lagoon so we jumped in there. Then we stopped for lunch nearby in the shade and they had an Australian football or rugby ball or something like that, and I learned to throw it properly! Not well obviously because I'm athletically inept, but it was not as bad as it could have been!

However, the best part of the tour was where we went next, the Crystal Cascades. It was so beautiful. It was this river coming off the mountains with all these little waterfalls that you could swim in. It was cold and refreshing, unlike the bath water that the ocean feels like, and when you looked up all you could see was rainforest covered mountains towering around you. I never wanted to leave! There were just like little mini drops in the river with rocks so you could climb from one pool to the next. I managed to get a few pictures but I obviously couldn't take my camera in with me so it is hard to describe all of it.

Once they had finally managed to drag us out of there, we got back on the bus and headed back to Campus. I spent the night just hanging with my friends. Tonight it is my friend Shaylin's birthday so we are going into the city to go shopping and get lunch! Should be a fun day. Enjoy the pictures. Miss you all. Don't forget to wear your "windcheater"!

I hope  you can understand how large this spider is.

View of the mountains.

Our lovely bus

In front of the ocean at Palm Cove with Annie. 

High risk for stingers today!

My group on a giant fish at Muddy's playground

Yupp, even the trees want to hurt you here.

Walk down to the water at Crystal Cascades. 

Me! 

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