After ensuring our accommodation at Double Bay was tidied, we locked it up and headed to the local park to wait for the 9:20 ferry. I told Michael I wasn’t able to push a 15 kg suitcase up the HILL. Upon arriving at Circular Quay, we learnt that there was construction on the train track to the airport so we had to take an alternate route. It meant we arrived just in time for our flight.
As many of you have likely seen on the news or the Weather Network, there has been devasting floods in the Townsville area. While I didn’t see it as we flew to Cairns, supposedly 300,000 heads of cattle have perished as well as lots of wildlife. Meanwhile, near the border between New South Wales (the state Sydney is in) and Queensland (where Cairns is), there have been some devasting fires. What a contast!
As it has been a travel day, I didn’t take any interesting photos but will definately have some in the upcoming days.
On our way to our accommodation, we saw a number of trees filled with bats which I want to get some photos of. We didn’t see any crocodiles but we have been warned to be on the lookout as they can appear in the streets. On Monday, we will be heading out to the Great Barrier Reef for the day, which I am very much looking forward to seeing. I last saw the reef 30 years ago and am interested in seeing how its changed.
Although it is only 8 p.m. local time, it is already quite dark, unlike Sydney that was still bright at 9 p.m. We heading out for a walk so I will end today’s blog. Talk to you tomorrow.
UPDATE: On our walk to the Esplande, the walk and park along the beach area, we found the large outdoor community pool shown in the “photo of the day”. While we went out after it was dark, it was still VERY humid. I can’t imagine doing this walk if the sun is out.
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