Tropical Queensland

5th-12th August

Flew up to Cairns from Brisbane. Arrived late on, had one night in a hostel and caught the bus first thing in the morning, which heads further north into Tropical Queensland, met a few nice people on the bus having a few chats with them all on the way up!

The bus stops to let us on the Daintree River cruise, where we got the chance to see Crocodiles live in the wild, Saw some slither out of the river and onto the banks, we saw the alpha male croc, who was massive, apparently they can both swim and run faster than an Olympic sprinter, so you don’t want to be anywhere near them in the water.

Mossman Gorge

Croc City

Got up to Cape Tribulation, which is basically completely covered in rain forest, the place I was staying PK’s jungle village, is set within the forest and literally meters from the beach!

Met some other people who were on the bus, and who were staying there, went to the beach with them! And then decided to hang out by the pool, after we see signs on the beach warning people about the crocodiles! :-/ (Apparently some drunken Belgian guy swam up the creek off the beach at night and was attacked! So we played it safe.)

Cape Trib

Tiny beware of the Croc sign top left of sand dune

Spent the evening in the bar with some of the girls, Hannah, Kelly and Myra, playing Cards and eating and drinking!!

The next day we had our day on the Great Barrier Reef, went out with Hannah and Kelly, on the Rum Runner it spends about 2 hours heading out towards the reef felt well rough on board, didn’t puke though, unlike a few others!

The great barrier reef

Me on the reef !

Swam on the reef, did a scuba dive in the morning, and went snorkeling in the afternoon, absolutely amazing, saw so much colour in the coral, and saw so many fish, the water is so clear and it all looks great as the sun streams right through to the bottom.

Kelly and Me on the reef

The cape

The Rum Runner

coming into shore

The next day we had a morning horse riding, which was pretty crazy, the guy let us race off on the horses, seemed pretty dodgy at the time, lots of fun though

Kelly was never happy with Silver in Sydney 2002

Me and Han on horseback !

Spent plenty of time, with Kelly and Hannah, playing plenty of cards in the bar each evening.

The Gang: Bazza, Me, Kelly, Hannah, and Myra!

some muppet

Headed back down to Cairns, stopped off on the way at Port Douglas and a few other places.

close to where Steve Irwin copped it !

who are you to me

Kelly and Hannah...SHUT UP

I was staying in a really rowdy hostel and could hardly get any sleep, due to pissed up Scottish backpackers who seemed to have spent their entire trip in a drunken state.

The next day did a daytrip to the Atherton Tableland Mountains, which was excellent, especially as the girls I did Fraser island with were there to also do the day trip.
Swam in some beautiful lakes, rivers and even under the huge Milla Milla waterfall… (that very one used by Peter Andre)

Riding down

Me doing a crazy back flip spin down the falls

Atherton Tablelands

The Atherton Tablelands gang

The Milla Milla Falls

Behind the Milla Milla Falls

Spent my last night with Andrea, Eva, and Adelaide having some beers in town

Andrea, Me, Eva, & Adelaide

When i finally returned to rowdy central! saw the scottish backpackers all still up drinking goon (sh1t wine) thought if you cant beat em...join em...so had a few drinks with them... I Hit the sack about 2am, had to be up at 7 for my flight to Perth Via Aryes Rock so that probably wasnt the best idea!

The trip was a flight to Ayres Rock, 2 hours there then back on a plane and over the rest of Oz, to Perth! pretty cool to see The Rock from the air and the ground!

Ayres Rock

The Rock

written by

tomrendell on August 6, 2007 from Cape Tribulation, Australia

from the travel blog: Melbourne and the East coast

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Who are you to me????
Shut up! Just to let you know we say the Bazmistro at Airlie Beach.
Missing you dearly Thomas - You are easily the coolest best bloke we have met on our travels! Don't forget to say hi when you get to Singapore!!!
Han xxx

written by Hannah O'Shea on August 19, 2007

SHUT UP !

Hannah
I will say hi In Singapore, but i need your email adress kido !!

send me an e-mail to tomrendell@hotmail.co.uk

Will be in Singapore on the 1st of October.

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tomrendell on September 23, 2007

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