We then went for a stroll down the boardwalk to the Lagoon stopping at everything interesting on the way. This meant at 20 minute walk took over 2 hours. Ahhhh the joys of vacation.
The first stop was Muddy's playground where all the kiddies had a good time.
The playground has everything including lots of water stuff, a cafe and restrooms. We were there for a while and then finally headed down the road to see...
In this area of Australia there are lots and lots of crocodiles and swimming at the beach is a BAD idea. As you will see in a minute Cairns has taken care of this issue by creating a fabulous salt water lagoon.
Also the Cairns beach is incredibly shallow, there is a canal in the centre that has been dredged for boats to come in and out but this has created a bit of a nasty muddy beach except just at the edges. Not nice for swimming anyway.
We spent lots and lots of time here, this was an R&R vacation with a couple of busy touring days. We went to the pool at the hotel, went to the lagoon, ate out a bit, ate in a bit and basically just vegged.
It was wonderful!!!
We did go to the Reef (and that will have it's own page) and did a tour of the Rainforest (ditto for it) but most of the time we just hung out. Matt and I did sneak out one night and had dinner alone at the Hotel Cairns, I felt like Bogart should be popping out like in Casablanca, it was all white rattan and very romantic. We ate emu, kangaroo and crocodile!
As I mentioned before I got an attachment that let me down load pix to the ipad, we did not bring the laptop with us. This was good as halfway through our trip Matt accidentally deleted ALL the photos from his camera! ACK! But being the anal retentive individual that I am I had been downloading photos every morning so he only lost a few. eek.
Cairns is definitely a tourist town so there were lots of coffee shops, junk stores and fun places to look at.
Lazy days pix to follow...
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