What a day! We got up at 5:30am this morning to get the taxi to Sydney Airport - arriving early to make sure that our flight to Brisbane was connected with the flight to Cairns, so the baggage was transferred OK.Thanks to the efficiency of Qantas (really) it all went well. Our first flight to Brisbane took 1:30 and we had 30 minutes to transfer to the 2:10 flight to Cairns. We had some fantastic aerial views of the Great Barrier Reef on the journey and the cloud thinned and had nearly gone by the time we reached Cairns.
When we disembarked at the very quaint airport at Cairns it was just like walking into a sauna. The temperature was about 32C and the humidity was very very high. Luckily we found an air-conditioned taxi pretty quickly and had a short trip to the Pacific International Hotel which was perfectly located on The Esplanade. We were so glad we'd picked a superior room on the corner of the hotel which enjoyed panoramic views of both the sea and town.
We spent the afternoon exploring and booking a trip to the reef and Kuranda for the couple of days we're here.
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