Tuesday September 28, 2010

Tuesday morning was an early morning, getting up at 3 am to make our 5 am flight. Since we were basically zombies at that point, not much happened. We just went through the necessary motions to get ourselves to the airport and onto our flight so that we could go back to sleep for 3 hours before arriving in Cairns. The only interesting thing about the flight was that apparently Darwin is a typical layover point for people traveling from Singapore, so they claimed we were flying international and we had to go through customs. That was just annoying more than anything. Anyway, once we arrived in Cairns we hung out at the airport for an hour before our friend Dani arrived. She had had another trip at the beginning of break so she decided to meet us in Cairns. Once we got to our hostel in Cairns, we decided to explore the area. Cairns has this really cute downtown area with a ton of shops and restaurants; such a nice change from Darwin. While walking around we found the dive shop that we wanted to take a dive trip through. Thankfully they had availability for the four of us to be able to go diving the next day. Once we booked that we continued to walk around and found that Cairns has a nicely landscaped area with a huge beach pool at it (similar to what I’ve described that Brisbane has, but bigger and nicer). While walking around the area we ended up going down to the harbor for a little while and decided to check out our dive boat, which looked awesome. We continued to walk around a for while and then decided to go to Woolworth’s (a grocery store) to get some breakfast food and snacks for the week. By the time we got back to our hostel it was close to dinnertime, and our hostel provided free dinner for all of its guests, so obviously that’s what we did for most of the week. Granted the dinners weren’t of the highest quality, but free food is free food. Later that night we decided to walk around the town and found some cool night markets. That pretty much sums up our Tuesday. We had been tired from the early morning and we were going to be getting up early the next morning for our dive, so we just went to bed after going to the night markets.