Cairns

So I've been hanging out in Cairns for a few days now. On tuesday I was out on the barrier reef scuba diving. Wed I was white water rafting on the Tully river, which was a pretty crazy day. I was in the first group of rafts on the water and they had us doing all kinds of crazy things like swimming through big rapids and jumping off of cliffs. It also happened that there is a damn on the river but for what ever reason the damn was all the way open so there was the maximum amount of water flowing that they get through there.

Yesterday I went up to Kuranda which is a small village in the middle of the rain forest. It was originally a mining town/aboriginal village, but now it has kind of turned into a kind of hippy town tourist attraction. To get up there I took a cable car that goes up above the rain forest which was really cool to see, and for the way back I took a train back down through the mountains. The rides there and back were really good though the town itself didn't have much to interest me, it is mainly wildlife sanctuaries and art galleries.

On saturday I'm going to be heading out on a dive boat for 3 days to go diving on the reef and do my advanced open water course.