Monday 7th August

It was a beautiful day in Cairns today, which was a welcome change for us, after all the rain in Sydney! We wandered around Cairns and reminisced about our time here last year. We walked past the expensive restaurants where we dined on seafood platters, kangaroo, crocodile and emu pate! None of that for us this time round- not on a back packers budget (I could hear Skippy breathe a sigh of relief!!!)

Back at the hostel we prepared a very healthy breakfast which consisted of fresh strawberries, melon and grapes with yoghurt before heading down to the esplanade to read our books in the glorious sunshine.

Later on we treated ourselves to a late lunch, Chrissy had fish and chips, whilst I enjoyed a seafood risotto which included among other things- whole baby octopus. I don’t know what it is about Cairns but I always end up eating things I wouldn’t dream of having back home!!!