Brisbane to Cairns, Pam and Tim arrive!

April 6, 2008
Up bright and early for our flight to Cairns and the tropics. We flew out of the International Airport in Brisbane because our plane was to go on to Singapore. This did involve some extra steps for us and some worry for our fellow passengers. The confusion was about do we go through customs, what can we carry on with us??? It was all easily sorted out and we arrived here in Cairns about an hour before Tim and Pam Eld. After we got all the luggage rounded up and loaded into a taxi we found our condo. It’s quite spacious and lovely, in a sort of gated community. Very much upscale from our backpacker hostel in Brisbane. Our room there was so tiny we could only have one of us out of bed at a time. Well, that’s almost the truth any way. We settled into the condo and then took a cab back to the city to rent a car, by this time Tim and Pam were fading fast after 36 hours with little or no sleep. We stopped at a Thai restaurant that served wonderful food and ate and then took "the kids" back to the condo to go to bed. Bosco and I left again to look for a market to buy some staples for breakfast. While in Cairns we kept seeing this horde of "birds" circling and diving first over here then over there. When we left the restaurant we decided to drive up and get a better look. Not birds at all but big fruit bats, screeching, diving and flying. No Toto we’re not in Kansas any more