Sunny Cairns

Monday, 17 July 2017

Fish feeding

CIAF fish

Looking for patterns

Photo bombed!!!

Stingray

Centenary Lake

Chinese Friendship Pavilion

Garden entrance

Beehive ginger flower

All the food groups represented

Noticed shopping

Plane wreck at Kuranda

Kuranda Markets

Termite mound - and Kathryn

Palm Cove

Old Sydney ferry Barrenjoey

It has been a busy few days following the arrival of sister, Kathryn, last Thursday afternoon.  Her heavy winter clothes were hardly appropriate for the Cairns’ climate!  We spent Friday morning catching up on important stuff like body maintenance before heading to the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair after lunch.  There were some very impressive art works on display, many of which would have looked very nice on my walls.  We completed the afternoon with a visit to the Chinese Friendship Garden at Centenary Lakes and a walk through the Botanic Gardens.

In order to use some winning vouchers, we opted for dinner on Friday night at Cazaly’s.  Our initial reaction was that Friday was not a good time to visit – many, many other people have the same idea.  We discovered it is the night when raffle tickets are handed out free when food/drink is purchased and there are many draws throughout the night.  We were only there for one draw and didn’t bring any meat home.  However, we did decide to donate $5 each to the poker machines – Himself very quickly won $50, Kathryn (who didn’t know what to do and just pressed a button) immediately won $100 and I ended up with $4.  The night didn’t turn out too bad after all.

Saturday was time to hit the market and shop, a foot massage, as well as support the ice cream shop for a very healthy lunch.  Sunday was also time for more markets, this time at Kuranda.  It didn’t really take too long to walk down the street, stopping when necessary, so we set out for Jacques Coffee Plantation and enjoyed their new film and some coffee.  The weather continued to be perfect.

This morning we headed to Palm Cove for a morning walk along the beach, which is exactly what one thinks of as a typical tropical beach.  There were plenty of tourists about, many of them taking advantage of the numerous eateries along the waterfront.  The afternoon was spent cruising Trinity Inlet, enjoying the weather and views and hoping for a sighting of a crocodile – no such luck!