Cairns the first time

Our first mission when we arrived in Cairns was to find somewhere to stay over Christmas and the New Year and to decide what we were going to do on Christmas day. So began a long and arduous search round the various bars, restaurants and hotels. It was a task that we accepted reluctantly and took us a week to complete before deciding that we still couldn’t decide where to stay or what to do. Graeme and Hazel were already in Cairns when we turned up. We visited the night markets to do some shopping and have a Chinese from one of the food stalls. Our eyes turned out to be bigger than our bellies and there was enough left for the next day! While Graeme and Hazel went diving Graham serviced their van. It gave him something to do. We all went up into the rain forest at Kuranda for a day and spent another day at Palm Cove.