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We’d got the tip that the red cat trip was a good one from Skye’s mum and so booked a day tour on the Thundercat! We got picked up at 8.30am down the street (they were a bit late!) and then headed down to the harbour. It was a big operation with about 5 boats.Continue reading “3rd Jan 24: Whitsundays”

We didn’t have anything much planned for today so we grabbed our beach stuff and headed to Airlie Beach lagoon. The sea has stingers and maybe sharks, so there’s a lovely large pool just near it. We lazed around, swam, read and drank iced coffees and iced chocolates, Paul was still enforcing the starvation dietContinue reading “2nd Jan 24: Airlie Lagoon”

Next stop was Airlie beach and actually it was nice to wake up on New Year’s Day without a hangover! We got the plane to Prosperine and after a bit of a panic about how to transfer to Airlie Beach we got to our apartment. It was lovely to have a bit more space atContinue reading “1st Jan 24: Off to Airlie Beach”

The last day of the year! We had our final trip in Cairns to Kuranda. Due to the extreme flooding we couldn’t take the train, but we could do everything else. We started off by going to the Wildlife park. This was our first encounter with some proper Aussie animals and we saw (and petted)Continue reading “31st Dec 23: Kuranda, dude!”

Our second trip in Cairns and this time we caught a boat to Fitzroy Island off the coast. It was sooo hot! After a 45 minute boat ride we got there. The island was beautiful and just what you imagine a tropical island to be – white sands, turquoise waters and palm trees. We allContinue reading “30th Dec 23: Fitzroy Island”

We got an early start (7.30am). It was an absolutely beautiful day! Our driver was a cool dude called Orion who was from the local area. The first stop was Josephine Falls – it was a short walk through the forest to a beautiful waterfall. There was a lovely pool that you climbed down toContinue reading “29th Dec 23: Waterfall trip!”

Our flight was around midday so we got up for our last delicious breakfast at the Interconty and headed to the airport. We arrived in Cairns around 3pm and it wasn’t far to the hotel. At first look the hotel seemed quite nice – a few bars, pool etc – but it was a bitContinue reading “28th Dec 23: Arrival in Cairns”

We had booked a trip on the Oz Jet Boat at 10am so had a quick breakfast and went down for that. It was SO much fun! The boat went haring round the harbour and bay areas, doing sharp turns to get us all soaking wet! The music and adrenaline was pumping and we cutContinue reading “27th Dec 23: Coogee to Manly”

Another beautiful day at Bondi so we just did a lot of wave jumping and relaxed on the beach. The rips were pretty strong though and it reminded us of the episodes of Bondi rescue we had watched!! We had dinner booked at Doyle’s, so we went home in the afternoon via another trip toContinue reading “26th Dec 23: Boxing Day!”