First Words from Oz
Hi everyone! Welcome to Stefan & Liz's blog! Over the next few weeks we'll be writing about all of our experiences here in the land of Oz, so enjoy!
We started out our trip with a free glass of wine in the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge in the Vancouver airport. Janet, Liz's soccer team mate, gave us the passes so that we could start out our trip in style. We felt quite out of place with all of the business travellers in suites, but enjoyed the little bit of class none the less.
The rest of the trip is nothing to write about, we'll skip to the Cairns airport where we had a small detour into the wrong section of the airport. We were given some poor directions and some how ended up in the departures lounge. With the help of a few helpful staff members we were able to make our way through to customs and made it through without a hitch.
We arrived at the Cairns Colonial Club and were greeted with a bottle of champagne which we enjoyed on our very tropical deck. We had to make a quick trip down to the swim-up bar since Liz had been looking forward to it for months! We then made our way to tour desk and booked our next two days in Australia. We've decided to be tacky tourists which we're in Cairns.
On our first day, we took a scenic train up to Kuranda which is a small town up in the rain forest. While there we went to Reforestation where we learnt how to throw a boomerang, took a tour in an Army Duck (a six-wheel drive army vehicle that can also drive in the water like a boat) and saw our first kangeroos, koalas and crocodiles. We got a demonstration of aboriginal dancing and Stefan got embarassed by having the dance on stage, again. We left Kuranda by taking the SkyRail, a gondola, down over the rain forest.
Day two was a trip out to the Great Barrier Reef to do some snorkeling. It was a fantastic experience even though it was quite windy and wasn't the nicest weather. Liz's favourite fish was the blue pencil sturgeon fish and she was also quite excited to get a quick glimpse of Nemo. We also learned a valuable lesson that you can still get bad sun burns even though it's not totally sunny out!
We booked the first leg of our Oz Experience bus trip, but couldn't book it until Monday, so we extended our stay at the Colonial Club by one day and spent a relaxing day in Cairns. We strolled along the streets looking in at several shops. We even had dinner at Fasta Pasta on Carey's recommendation.
Tomorrow we are off to Mission Beach as we leave the tacky tourist life and begin the backpacker life! We'll try to upload some pictures later, but this computer won't let us yet. Oh well, until next time!
Stefan & Liz
We started out our trip with a free glass of wine in the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge in the Vancouver airport. Janet, Liz's soccer team mate, gave us the passes so that we could start out our trip in style. We felt quite out of place with all of the business travellers in suites, but enjoyed the little bit of class none the less.
The rest of the trip is nothing to write about, we'll skip to the Cairns airport where we had a small detour into the wrong section of the airport. We were given some poor directions and some how ended up in the departures lounge. With the help of a few helpful staff members we were able to make our way through to customs and made it through without a hitch.
We arrived at the Cairns Colonial Club and were greeted with a bottle of champagne which we enjoyed on our very tropical deck. We had to make a quick trip down to the swim-up bar since Liz had been looking forward to it for months! We then made our way to tour desk and booked our next two days in Australia. We've decided to be tacky tourists which we're in Cairns.
On our first day, we took a scenic train up to Kuranda which is a small town up in the rain forest. While there we went to Reforestation where we learnt how to throw a boomerang, took a tour in an Army Duck (a six-wheel drive army vehicle that can also drive in the water like a boat) and saw our first kangeroos, koalas and crocodiles. We got a demonstration of aboriginal dancing and Stefan got embarassed by having the dance on stage, again. We left Kuranda by taking the SkyRail, a gondola, down over the rain forest.
Day two was a trip out to the Great Barrier Reef to do some snorkeling. It was a fantastic experience even though it was quite windy and wasn't the nicest weather. Liz's favourite fish was the blue pencil sturgeon fish and she was also quite excited to get a quick glimpse of Nemo. We also learned a valuable lesson that you can still get bad sun burns even though it's not totally sunny out!
We booked the first leg of our Oz Experience bus trip, but couldn't book it until Monday, so we extended our stay at the Colonial Club by one day and spent a relaxing day in Cairns. We strolled along the streets looking in at several shops. We even had dinner at Fasta Pasta on Carey's recommendation.
Tomorrow we are off to Mission Beach as we leave the tacky tourist life and begin the backpacker life! We'll try to upload some pictures later, but this computer won't let us yet. Oh well, until next time!
Stefan & Liz
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