Cairns - day 35

After taking the shuttle bus, we slept at the airport until check-in at 3h; our plane left Darwin at 5h20. We managed to sleep pretty well in the plane and weren't too tired when we landed in Cairns at 8h20. We took a shuttle bus to our hostel, the Dreamtime Travellers Hostel (really nice! very cosy and relaxed and very friendly staff). We booked several tours for our way down the East Coast, including the Great Barrier Reef, the Whitsunday Islands and Fraser Island. We walked around through town and had lunch. Cairns is really small and lives mainly from the reef tourism. Every other building is a travel agency, a bar or a hostel! Cairns has a beach, but you're not allowed to swim there due to crocodiles, so they have a fake beach with a pool that they call the Lagoon instead. In the afternoon we headed back to the hostel, relaxed by the pool for a bit and then had dinner at Cafe Melt, just next door. It was really good! We went to bed early cause we booked a reef tour departing early in the morning.

Weather: warm and sunny, with some clouds, no flies here!!