Well well well. Home again for a quick breather and it is nice except for the lack of food at my apartment. Peter left this morning and it was so great to have him and the duty free liquor. I picked him up at the airport Monday morning and from there vacation began. We dropped some stuff at our hostel in downtown Sydney and starting hitting the sights. We saw the Opera House and Darling Harbor and Pitt St and Chinatown, man oh man did we do some walking and our feet felt it. As Peter would say 'My dogs are barking'. After a long day of sightseeing we got a quick shower, a quick vodka tonic and got some dinner at a local pizza shop. Peter called it an early night while I nursed $6 pitchers watching college basketball. Day two was much of the same, we walked to Surry Hills, a really neat neighbourhood in Sydney and ate lunch at an amazing little cafe named Four Ate Five. If you ever go try the Banana, Honey and Cinnamon milkshake--to die for.
We caught our plane to Cairns Tuesday evening and just crashed once we got to our hostel. The next day I was able to get a hold of some friends of mine and the six of us hit up Hartleys Croc Adventure. It was pretty cool, we saw a ton of crocs and some snakes. Peter even got called up on stage to hold a huge snake--he loved it. The man said it was random but I think its because he looked the ULTIMATE tourist.
Day two in Cairns we headed North to Cape Tribualtion, it was cool but it rained all day so we weren't able to swim in the Mossamon Gorge or see any of the sights really, which was a bummer but thats traveling right? We stayed that night in Cape Trib at a really quaint little place called Crocadylus Village and it was super cool. It was effectively in the rainforest, and the food was amazing. Our second day in Cape Trib we went sea kayaking and that was a blast. Our guide Griff (Peter called him Reef the whole time) was an amazing individual to say the least. You could write books on this man--speaks like 15 languages, didn't go to college, opens kayaking companies around the world, dated a woman in the Thai Mafia, owns/operates a safehouse in Burma for young girls raped by the Burmese Army--are you kidding me? I try and recycle and this dudes is opening safehouses. We were able to see some great wildlife and I won't write about it, but ask me sometime about the Dingo we found.
After heading back to Cairns and our hostel that evening, we just spent that night and the next day chilling. Hit up the casino and won some major change, had a great breakfast and did a beer tasting!
The next day we had whitewater rafting on the Tully River, and let me tell you it was amazing! Some rate the Tully in the top five rivers in the world for rafting, I rate it as the best. We had a really cool guide, as some Germans got on our raft the guide said 'I hope you brought your sense of humor' and the Germans looked and said stone faced 'What is sense of humor?' I looked around and said to myself 'Now its a party'.
Our last day in Cairns we spent fishing in the Cairns Estuary, it was pretty cool- we saw a real croc in the wild. The only bummer was that we didn't catch a damn thing however the three 6 year old girls on our boat couldn't put their pole in the water without bringing something in. How bunk is that? We didn't even have a case of beer.
After an eventful trip in Cairns we headed to Brisbane to spend some time with Peter's friend Laura, she was great and her mom was even better! We got to sleep in a real bed and do some washing. We had some amazing fresh prawns and chips for lunch and then headed to the CBD to check out Brissy. We got a few pints downtown and headed back to Laura's for a little Aussie BBQ. It was an early night because we got up the next morning and headed to Surfers Paradise for a little R&R. Nothing a day at the beach can't fix. We got some amazing seafood and had a great night of dancing! We followed this all up with a midnight swim and some rest. The next day i had to catch a plane back to Sydney but not before stopping at Yatala Pies--a Gold Coast staple.
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