Today we got up early got ourselves ready and were downstairs for breakfast by 7:30, finally getting adjusted to the time. After breakfast we went down to the edge of Trinity Bay and walked a couple of miles along their boardwalk.
The area was fairly empty at that hour, but activity was beginning to increase. The Bay itself although a great deal of sandy beach existed, did not have any swimmers as the jellyfish in this area are poisonous and make the area useless.
There is a huge sand bottom pool that sits just feet from the edge of the water, and it was already bustling with people enjoying the water. There was a group of roughly 50 or 60 doing water aerobics with the help of a leader with a microphone that stood at pools edge encouraging the group.
After walking for a couple of hours, looking at the sites we stopped at a sidewalk cafe and had coffee and a diet coke while people watching and enjoying the beach just yards away. After this we walked back to our hotel to charge things like iPads, iPhones, and various other electronic devices.
This trip also included a 30 minute power nap to help with the adjustment to the time.
The afternoon saw a trip to the grocery store to pick up a few things for lunch and drinks for the fridge. The main difference between our grocery stores and this one was the types of fruits and vegetables, more tropical mix like you might find in Hawaii, and the fact everything was sold Blythe kilo and not by the pound. Having to think back to high school to convert things to metric equivalents. After this we walked a bit more before making our way back to the hotel.
After a lite lunch of cheese, crackers, salami and some fruit we walked down to the waterfront to sit and enjoy a drink and do more people watching. Tonight we had a group dinner for all on tour, as most arrived today. There are three women on the tour from Cincinnati…Small World!
Dinner was a Brazilian Style with waiters walking around with skewers of meat slicing off as much as you wanted. We ate our fill then as we were getting ready to head back to the room, fireworks began to fill the sky. Cairns has had a month long festival that was ending this weekend and we were lucky enough to see the ending fireworks display. Certainly not even close to Those on the river over labor day weekend, but very well done.
Learned a coup,e of interesting facts about Australia, first it can be considered the smallest continent, or the largest island! Then we learned the country has 22 million people, not many compared to US, and of those almost half live in either Sydney and Melbourne, while the other half is scattered throughout the rest of the country.
Tomorrow starts the real tour, with a visit to the rainforest.
I will end with a few pictures, one from our balcony and the others showing Trinity Bay.
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