Coping with public and private transport since 2001
The cloud cover from yesterday has persisted over night, and even culminated into rain: during the night and throughout the morning rain has steadily fallen. Coupled with the strong winds, it means going out to sea is definitely not nice. Mission Beach is proud to have the shortest commute from land to the Great Barrier Reef, and at about 40
Continue readingThe weather today couldn’t be more different than what it was yesterday: it is grey, fully overcast with low hanging clouds and it drizzles continuously. The temperature dropped way down as well, and it now does not get over 18 degrees. With a day of sightseeing in high roads, this does not bode well. As we only very briefly saw
Continue readingWe’ll be leaving Cairns today and as all of our travelling is done by car, we kind of need one of those. And so we were off to the rental people to get ours. We officially rented a standard car (SDAR) but instead got a standard SUV (IFAR), in this case a Mitsubishi ASX. We are quite familiar with those,
Continue readingThese early mornings are becoming quite the habit over here! Yes, we start off with breakfast at 06:30 again this morning, as we’ll be picked up by Billy Tea Bush Safaris around 7 at our hotel. They’ll be trucking us and a few other people up north today, on a full day of exploring the country north of Cairns. The
Continue readingAnother early morning for us, as we will be on a boat for almost the entire day today. We’ll be heading off to the Great Barrier Reef! This meant we had to be ready at the Marlin Marina at 8 in the morning to board the boat. And so we were. Together with 78 other people, we embarked on a
Continue readingThe beach over here in Cairns is… quite different to what we are used to back home. For instance, the tides are really big over here, and the beach is either really small or really large. Secondly, no one is allowed on it. Why, I hear you ask? Estuarine Crocodiles. So, the Inhabitants of Cairns have created their own beach,
Continue readingAll good things must come to an end, and our visit to Australia’s most famous National Park is not different. We actually have nothing planned for today, and decided to totally wing it. We’ll make up stuff along the way, we know we need to be at the airport at a certain time to hand in the car and catch
Continue readingThis morning, we’ll have a do-over for yesterday afternoon, but without the sunset. Oh yeah, we are about to embark on a boat again to watch wildlife. Yesterday evening, there were a large amount of waterbirds and only a few crocodiles, today it is the complete opposite. Loads and loads of crocodiles, but the birds are a little bit more
Continue readingAfter a good night of sleep and a huge breakfast at the Gorge information centre, we found some time to admire the resident Wallabiesat this place, even though we are still unsure what kind they were. They were still enjoying the morning coolness as we left, on a day which promised to be hotter than yesterday. We eventually hit 34
Continue readingQuite early into the drive from Batchelor to Katherine, we found ourselves in the middle of a huge flock of Red-Tailed Cockatoos. As we were on a highway, we had to pull over and put the car in the dirt right next to the road. From here, we had excellent views of this flock of birds, which was about 200
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