Day 3 - Cairns

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I never thought I would say this but after 2 days without seeing the sun, today for the first time I got to see it. It was just for a brief moment, the sky open up and a few minutes later the sun disapeared again. Shy fellow this Australian sun.

You can almost see it coming up on these two pictures:

It was a nice day to walk about today

I was meant to ring the diving cruise company today in order to confirm my attendance to the diving cruise. I dialled the number I had and a message told me the service I was trying to access was not available at the moment...what the...? I´ve tried a couple more times (like maybe on the 4th try I would get a different outcome...human nature) and same result.

Okay...it must be me then...no worries. I took the shuttle to town, walked to the place and walked in, confirmed my attendance for tomorrow and asked them about the telephone...it turns out I was given the wrong number! no wonder nobody was answering! but at least now it's all settled for tomorrow.

The check out in the hostel is at 10 am tomorrow...so I´ll have to take everything to Mike ball (that´s the name of the company)

and then spend the day in town until 6pm when I´ll have to meet them at the boarding point (wherever it is), and be ready to depart!

Today it wasn´t Astralia day so most shops were open and although it´s been cloudy most of the day, at least it hasn´t rainned.

Right after lunch I went to one of the local McDonalds and sat in one of the tables outside (I still can´t take the smell inside, it reminds me of my times flipping burgers).

Mind you I wasn't attracted to this McDonalds because of the high quality and tasty food as you can imagine but because of the Free Wifi. :-) So I took one of the tables outside and started typing...it seems I wasn't the only one with that idea, a few minutes later I found myself surronded by people with their netbooks typing like maniacs all around me! and I thought I was the weirdo for doing it...

All I´ve done today basically is to look around for all the different activities that you can do in Cairns and I finally reduced the possible winners to the following 4...when I can back from the Great Barrier Reef I'll get back to Cairns for one or 2 days so hopefully I'll be able to do one of those...I still haven't decided which though. I admit suggestions. :-)

I´ll have a busy morning tomorrow with all the packing I´ll have to do but I'm really looking forward to the diving cruise...I haven´t done any diving in a little over a year and diving among sharks it´s something I'm a bit aprehensive about but it'll certainly be a unique experience.

Not sure whether I´ll have any access to the internet after tomorrow and while at the yatch/boat or whatever it'll turn out to be but even if I don't I'll keep typing and typing until I can update the blog. :-)


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