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Monday, 29th October – Great Barrier Reef
Quite a day. Collected from the hotel by coach and driven 40 very twisty miles north up the coast to Port Douglas, where we boarded a huge catamaran called Quicksilver 8. Neither of us realised how many other people were involved in this trip – it must have been at least 200. All a bit…
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Sunday, 28th October – Cairns
I\’m beginning to like this place. A lot. Pics from our balcony: Pics from a general walk round the marina area of Cairns: He was actually remarkably good! Back to the hotel for a lovely lazy afternoon by the pool, having decided to go to a place called Kuranda just up the coast for an…
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Saturday, 27th October – Ayers Rock to Cairns
At last! A lie-in. Checked out of the room in timely fashion, but the weather was poor. Cool and very wet. Lots of hanging around until the coach came to collect us from the hotel and take us to the airport. Check-in at the airport uneventful. Flight comfortable (additional legroom seats had been pre-purchased) and…
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Friday, 26th October – Uluru and Kata Tjuta
3.45 a.m. alarm. YUK!! Struggled out of bed and made it in time for the 4.30 a.m. coach trip, first of all to Uluru for sunrise pictures, then to another extraordinary rock formation, that of Kata Tjuta, around 25 miles away. It was actually cloudy and cool on the way to Uluru, and we made…
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Thursday, 25th October – King\’s Canyon
Dragged ourselves out of bed at 3.15 a.m., but managed to make it to the front of the hotel by 3.59 a.m. However, the tour coach was about 15 minutes late – they had to change coaches because of a dodgy toilet, apparently. Set off on a very long trip east to King\’s Canyon –…
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Wednesday, 24 October – Ayers Rock Resort
Maybe it\’s time to point out a few things about this place. There is no town called Ayers Rock. That, as most people now know, is the non-indigenous name for that bloody great sandstone lump that sticks out of the desert. It is now known (rightly) by its indigenous name of Uluru. Ayers Rock these…
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Tuesday, 23rd October – Hobart to Ayers Rock
Our early morning phone call and my mobile phone alarm went off at precisely the same time – 4.15 a.m.!! Horrors! Managed to drag ourselves out of bed, make our way out to the car, drive to the airport and drop the car off by around 5 a.m. Not bad going for us. Both of…
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Monday, 22nd October – Freycinet to Hobart
After a light breakfast after last night\’s over-indulgence, we decided to drive the short distance to the car park for the Wineglass Bay viewpoint, one of the highlights of this beautiful area. The climb up to the viewpoint was a stiffish 35 minutes, but we were rewarded with some wonderful views: Climbing down from here,…
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Sunday, 21st October – Launceston to Freycinet
Better weather to wake up to today. Decided to forgo breakfast and hit the road relatively early for us. Stopped in Campbell Town (so many British names around here) for a coffee and snack, then headed in to the Freycinet peninsula along a very pleasant road. Lots of trees again…… Got to our destination – the…
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Saturday, 20th October – Launceston
Woke again to pissing rain and lowering skies. I\’d made an appointment with the after hours service of the hospital to have the stitches in my right elbow removed after the accident I\’d had in Port Fairy nearly two weeks ago. The surgery was in a rather depressing part of town, and the mood was…