My Boring Blog

Well, back from our wonderful vacation in Cairns. Weather was wonderful, around 29c/84f each day, partly cloudy, comfortable humidity (70%?). We went to Low Isle on the Great Barrier Reef on Monday, walked miles and shopped on Tuesday, went to the Daintree Rainforest on Wednesday - this included a river boat ride to look for crocs (3 small ones), and a nice BBQ lunch in a rainforest setting. Thursday, we swam in the Lagoon and shopped some more. Friday, we rode the Kuranda Scenic Railway, shopped in Kuranda, then rode the train back. As icing on the cake, we enjoyed a twilight cruise up and down the Trinity Inlet as our last touristy thing to do. All in all, a good trip, but too quick, as these things always are.

John took over 1200 pictures. I wasn't quite as prolific, my total was just under 700, I think. Got that down to just over 300, but still need to go through the videos.

Oddly, we were slightly disappointed with the rainforest. It wasn't drippy, moist and mosquito-laden as expected. We're at the end of the dry, so it really wasn't much different than, say, a forest in North Carolina. Except for the palm trees and birds-nest ferns, of course. Why I was disappointed that the rainforest was a pleasant place to be, I don't know.

Anyway. Have my work cut out for me, organizing the photos and videos into a DVD movie. For now though, here's a short video of a green turtle that wandered past as I was snorkeling.