NORTH QUEENS LAND. FINAL DAY!

So the final day of our holiday... Started nice and early again with an 8.30 start leaving Port Douglas around 10.30. From Port Douglas we travelled to the Daintree Nature Reserve which was really cool, Nice pretty walks and rivers. Not exactly my cup of tea. But after an exhausting walk Matt and i decided to go for a swim. The river was quite beautiful. There were massive rocks everywhere, rock hopping and swimming provided a good distraction as our hours left in North Queensland evaporated. We finally left that nature reserve, probably wouldnt go there again, i was pretty natured out after seeing Kotara a couple of days before, but its nice to know that rain forests like this still exist. So we travelled back to Cains where we walked through the Botanical Gardens which were also pretty but quite boring so i didn't take any photo's there either. finally we went to macca's to get free internet which was the slowest thing i have ever experienced, it was ridiculous. We then dropped off the car and went to the airport, had a feed and bailed back home through an epic storm. Sydney greeted us with a nice 16 Degree Celsius night in which we travelled home arriving at 3 am, just enough sleep so i could get to work the next day. Yipppeeee.

PORT DOUGLAS, GREAT BARRIER REEF!

So we woke up bright and early and ventured through the streets of Port Douglas to get to the marina, where we boarded the Aristocat and ventured out into the deep blue. On our journey we made the most of the free cakes and coffee's and even decided to hire an underwater camera. We went to three different reefs, all of which were quite unique in their own way. The last reef was probably my favourite. Matt and i found a deep rock shelf and decided to swim under it and through to the other side. Big thankyou's to the large man and his wife for occupying literally 3 spots on the boat, that girl at the last reef with massive boobs that bobbed up and down as she swam past, and last but not least Dad for paying. Here are some of the 300 photo's i took, hope you enjoy them.

HARTLEYS CROCODILE FARM AND PORT DOUGLAS.

Our last minutes staying in sunny Cairns ticked away and we headed up the coast towards the town of Port Douglas, pretty much the Byron Bay of Queensland. Its super chill and has some spectacular views from the beach. My camera gained a dust spot so i have random black spots in my photo's but oh well, you get the idea. On the way to Port Douglas we had some time to kill, and to our luck we encountered Hartley's Crocodile farm. We walked in and just got the end of the Saltwater croc show. Those things grow so big and are so sneaky. As you can see from the photo's they can jump super far out of the water, usually to grap snakes and birds out of tree's. We then moved over to a freshwater crocodile demonstration which weren't as big, but had much sharper teeth, The guy running the show actually jumped in with the crocodiles! Within about ten minutes they all surrounded him and he had to make a sweet escape. Later in the afternoon we did a croc tour in some little boat and went out in a small river system and fed the crocodiles, i didn't have a good zoom lens when taking these photo's they were actually that close. After that we watched a reptile show and some crocodile attack show which were pretty crazy, the guy almost had his foot bitten off haha. After that we continued the rest of our journey reaching our destination. We went for a walk and watched the sun set and finished the day drinking Corona's like kings.

CAIRNS DAY TWO! WHITE WATER RAFTING!

Day Two! Me and Matty wake up at six thirty and get ready for one of the best days of our lives. We had a two hour bus trip through tropical north Queensland l to a small town south of cairns called Tully. Tully is quite a depressing town. The cyclone ripped all the houses and local stores apart. It has one school, where the children supposedly learn to count to one million by age 12. then they are sent out to the sugar cane farms to work. Everyone in Tully is also related.. apparently. I didn't get any photo's of Tully because i wasn't to keen on taking my camera down the rapids, or leaving it on the bus. We finally reached the rapids and were put in a group of six with a german couple and two other ladies that were pretty rad! The river was amazing, i highly recommend doing the tour we did. Mostly grade 1-4. We were so well looked after and it was super safe as dangerous as it may look. The mountain sides, waterfalls and scenery were also quite spectacular until we neered tully and saw the effects of cyclone Yatzi. Crocodiles had also been spotted in parts of the river we passed through, but they didnt eat me. Thankfully. Caio

CAIRNS DAY 3 - Kotara & Skyrail!

Day three we travelled to some railway that took us up the mountains. The view was amazing, the train was supercool and really vintage. They built the railway 100 years ago and over 9 people died creating it, crazy stuff. We reached a small town called Kotara where we waited before we boarded the "skyrail". The town was pretty much filled with tourists, gypsy markets and places that sold those surfy bracelets. Dad found some little alley way that led to an opshop, fair stoked, got some denim shirts but they aren't that good haha, nothing major. It eventually came time that we board the skyrail, One of the most spectacular things i have ever done. Picture yourself hovering 40 feet above a rainforest that expands as far as the eye can see in all directions. You can see birds nests, animals, rivers and if you are lucky you might see a crocodile. We then reached the end and waited for a bus for an hour and a half, it was horrible, everything else was perfect, all in all a good day!

CAIRNS HOLIDAY! DAY 1

Cairns day 0, 5.5 Hour car trip to the airport Formula1. It was a great car trip.... i cant really remember it. Next morning.. the official day 1 we woke up super early, 6.30 and quickly got our stuff together for a quick departure. The first picture is an early morning mooning of Sydneys traffic, hopefully i made someones day haha. We got on the plane, and i got the window side... it was good. We arrived in Cairns 2.5 hours later and wow, a heatwave shook us, i had the most chronic ear ache and we headed to a car rental place and eventually headed to our accommodation which was much better than i expected. After arriving we went exploring for the afternoon. They have this rad place in Cairns called the Esplanade right on the water where they have activities and a massive swimming pool because there are crocodiles in the waters haha. They also had THE BEST SKATEPARK I HAVE EVER SEEN! but i forgot my skateboard, it was kinda too hot to skate anyway. There is photo of a tree towards the bottom, it was covered in popped bike tubes, shoes and scooter kids brains! Well... not the last one, but we can all dream, there were at least twenty pairs of shoes haha. Matt also drank his first beer and hated it! however he got progressively better throughout the trip. Man up Bruvvvv.