today finds us sightseeing in Cairns. We took the city bus from Trinity Beach to Cairns which was about a 45 minute ride but we went through lots of neighborhoods and got to see how these people live. pretty nice. the plants and trees are beautiful.

downtown cairns is kind of eclectic - there is an area with a boardwalk where all the boats dock and some restaurants and a shopping mall. then there are all the downtown streets selling everything imagineable. only thing we bought was a hat for ned. surprisingly, the souvenirs are cheap.

Back from our bus trip we are at the corner store using the computer and getting ice cream. we are having dinner tonight at the italian place here in Trinity Beach.

The manager of our accommodations at Sea Change upgraded us (i'm sure there was a reason why) to a three bedroom apartment so needless to say, we have tons of room. we walked to the grocery store yesterday which was about a 20 minute walk to buy groceries and then the grocer drove us back home. I swam in the pool for a little while yesterday but it was after the sun had gone down.

Ned had an accident yesterday which he said i could repeat here in the blog. The way the apartment complex is set up there are lots of little water hole areas and ned fell into one of them yesterday. he wasn't watching where he was walking. So he pulled himself out (it wasn't deep) and we went back upstairs and cleaned up his boo boos and he changed his wet clothes. He felt so stupid that he wasn't watching where he was walking.

Tomorrow we go on the Ocean Spirit cruise for the full day. So you probably won't hear anything from me tomorrow.

Yesterday there were lots of people having picnics on the beach and they have a huge swimmers net out in front of our place to keep the stingers away from the swimmers. warning signs every where warning people to stay out of the water.

We love this place. Such a beautiful setting. It is warm and humid but not unbearable.

I'm signing off for now but will catch up again with the blog on tuesday probably.

Cheers>>>