Sunday 6th August

We checked out of the hostel in Sydney and lazed around in the lounge area playing cards and generally chilling out. We caught the airporter bus to the airport and encountered our first delay on a Virgin Blue flight (which is pretty good considering the number of internal flights we have taken with them). It was only delayed by half an hour so it wasn’t too bad really.

The flight from Sydney to Cairns took around three hours and was pretty relaxing. The only thing that bugged me was the behaviour of a group of Chinese business men, indeed our opinion of this race has gone dramatically down hill since our time in Australia. Not only did they board the plane the wrong way (they were seated near the front so should have boarded via the front steps) but they then proceeded to barge past everybody including a women holding a baby without as much as an excuse me - bloody rude I say!

We arrived in Cairns around ten pm and caught a cab to the Cairns Central YHA hostel. We were both relieved to find that it was clean, tidy and quiet (I expected an all night rave to be going on). I must be getting old as I was glad to go to sleep in a quiet room with no head banging music (as dad would say).