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RE: Traveling to Australia ---- any recommendations? - 5/16/2006 3:36:20 PM

JamesM

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ORIGINAL: tabpub

Ok
Tue 4th-
Sat 8th is in Cairns at the Pacific International. Cairns really has me stumped; there is the railway trip up to the forest or something; or maybe a Reef tour (though would have to be one of those contained subs or something, don't swim or scuba and when I snorkel I wear the biggest preserver I can get.....) or just lounge around the beach/pool....
This is my last stop basically; I fly to Brisbane on the 9th for a flight home on the 10th.

The Kuranda Sky rail and the train is worth a trip. You can go up on one an come down on the other.

Visit the reef from Cairns. The pacif Internation is just about 200 meters from (1/4 mile) from the terminal where all the reef boats depart.

Also the Daintree rain forest is quite beauitful with picture post card beaches.

There is also tours of the Chilligoe caves (~2 1/2 hours west of Cairns).

A number of waterfalls in the hinterland (they will not have much flow as it would the Dry season (I hope)).

The Atherton Tablelands is also an area to visit.

If get board you can just perve on the backpackers at the Lagoon.

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RE: Traveling to Australia ---- any recommendations? - 5/17/2006 10:57:57 AM

Neilster

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The Kuranda Sky rail and the train is worth a trip. You can go up on one an come down on the other.

The cable car is so much better than the train that I'd recommend coming back down on it too. In the cable car you actually pass through the rainforest canopy, which is where all the action is. It's absolutely fantastic. It's a bit gloomy down where the train is and the waterfalls won't be in full cry at that time of year either.

The Undara lava tubes are supposed to be very good but they are 275 km from Cairns. I swam at Crystal Cascades which is a series of waterfalls and swimming holes in the rainforest near Cairns. It's great and has the advantage that crocodiles can't climb waterfalls

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We call female backpackers "Hurgen Flurgens" because their conversations sound a bit like that. Yes...the Hurgen Flurgens in Cairns are very easy on the eye...sigh...

Mind you, the rest of Australia is lousy with them too. Yaaay!

The first image is where the roof of one of the lava tubes has collapsed, letting a patch of rainforest develop. The second is of Crystal Cascades and the third is of the Cairns Lagoon, complete with Hurgen Flurgens.

Cheers, Neilster