Going to the Great Barrier Reef
Hello hello!!!
I have spent the last two days in Cairns in a Backpackers called Gilligans that is a super trendy backpackers (it looks more like a swanky students resident than anything else) where the whole of Cairns meet up at night. That is not a lot, as Cairn is quite a small town.
I have also spent the last days checking the beaches around Cairns. They are really nice as you can see how the Tropical Rain Forrest meets the sea, so you get these green montains with beautiful Palm trees and Mangroves (anybody keen on trying to spell this??!?) that end up in the lively waters of the East Coast... but is only when you are thinking about getting in the water when you realize that no one else is swimming. You then wonder why... and ask around... and they tell you about the stinger jelly-fish. Apparently it is still the season (like if they were peach or apples)... so you have to go in the water with a Stinger Suit... pfffffff!!! And just in the imaginary case that I had one of those suits (that I haven't)... when you carry on walking you find pannels like this ones:
Serious injure or death??!?!?!? Damm... and Tarzan used to kill them with a swiss army knife!!! Well... I left mine at Gilligans... so no swimming in this waters... serious injure... pffffff... I can imagine the pannel in the UK: "For safe and healthy reasons, blablabla"
Anyway... as these guys want to enjoy the sea... what do they do??? They just create a fake beach just right next to the sea... like they did in Brisbane. They are, actually, quite good at it :oP. And that is really the Cairns beach: the Lagoon! So I spent my afternoon in the local beach checking out the "cheeks".
Tomorrow I am going to get myself in a boat for three days and dive around the great barrier reef. It is suposed to be one of the best places of the world for diving, but apparently the recent cyclon Monica has left the visibility a little bit bad. Still... it should be quite good!
I'm off to see the Gilligans Wednesday night... no drinking tonight... and early night!
Sweet dreams to all of you!!!
Un beso gordo... os dejo que tengo que ir a ver como esta de ambiente mi supergarito y hacer la mochila... manhana a las 5.30am arriba... menudo stress de vida que tengo... a ver si me tomo unas vacaciones que me va a dar algo!!!!
Heiwa XX
I have spent the last two days in Cairns in a Backpackers called Gilligans that is a super trendy backpackers (it looks more like a swanky students resident than anything else) where the whole of Cairns meet up at night. That is not a lot, as Cairn is quite a small town.I have also spent the last days checking the beaches around Cairns. They are really nice as you can see how the Tropical Rain Forrest meets the sea, so you get these green montains with beautiful Palm trees and Mangroves (anybody keen on trying to spell this??!?) that end up in the lively waters of the East Coast... but is only when you are thinking about getting in the water when you realize that no one else is swimming. You then wonder why... and ask around... and they tell you about the stinger jelly-fish. Apparently it is still the season (like if they were peach or apples)... so you have to go in the water with a Stinger Suit... pfffffff!!! And just in the imaginary case that I had one of those suits (that I haven't)... when you carry on walking you find pannels like this ones:
Serious injure or death??!?!?!? Damm... and Tarzan used to kill them with a swiss army knife!!! Well... I left mine at Gilligans... so no swimming in this waters... serious injure... pffffff... I can imagine the pannel in the UK: "For safe and healthy reasons, blablabla"
Anyway... as these guys want to enjoy the sea... what do they do??? They just create a fake beach just right next to the sea... like they did in Brisbane. They are, actually, quite good at it :oP. And that is really the Cairns beach: the Lagoon! So I spent my afternoon in the local beach checking out the "cheeks".Tomorrow I am going to get myself in a boat for three days and dive around the great barrier reef. It is suposed to be one of the best places of the world for diving, but apparently the recent cyclon Monica has left the visibility a little bit bad. Still... it should be quite good!
I'm off to see the Gilligans Wednesday night... no drinking tonight... and early night!
Sweet dreams to all of you!!!
Un beso gordo... os dejo que tengo que ir a ver como esta de ambiente mi supergarito y hacer la mochila... manhana a las 5.30am arriba... menudo stress de vida que tengo... a ver si me tomo unas vacaciones que me va a dar algo!!!!
Heiwa XX
posted by Heiwa at 1:28 p. m.
4 Comments:
Hi Javi!
I was reading your post about Cairns and I thought of a great place I visited a few years ago, in Mission Beach. (http://www.sanctuaryatmission.com/), but I have just visited their webpage to find out Monica was quite hard on them, and they are not hoping to re-open until the 1st of september (that date rings a bell, I bet someone is getting married around those days...)
Have a great time there, I loved the scuba diving!
Muchos besos Virginia
tio, que seguro que ahora estas supermoreno, aprovecha lo de divemaster para las chatis ... keep it low ... !!!
cuando quieras te cambio mi stress por el tuyo!!!!
Y ni caso a los consejos de Oscar, q no picamos tan facilmente ;o)
Besinos
Eva
Ten cuidado de cocodrilos y cocodrilas. Los primeros muerden, las segundan te atrapan de por vida. Pffffffffffff.
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