Tricia's Travel Blog

Today we are going to the Aquarium in Cairns. It's very convienently located kitty-corner from our hotel. They don't open until 9:30 AM so we are able to sleep in a bit this morning. We find that the breakfast area is much more crowded later in the morning, as we are typically eating shortly after they open. I wanted to wait to go the aquarium until after we had gone snorkeling. If we had done the aquarium first I thought the kids may be underwhelmed by the number of fish we see on the actual reef. We had looked up information on the aquarium and found they have several animal talks at different aquarium tanks. Landon wants to go to the one on the life of sharks and rays, which starts at 11 AM, so that is our goal. After arriving and getting a map, we see that the talk about sharks and rays is towards the exit. Since we don't know how long it will take to walk there, we decide to just head that direction right away, and we'll come back to the begining when we are done. ...

Today is a public holiday in Queesland, Australia, it is the day they choose to celebrate the King's birthday. Now mind you King Charles of England's real birthday is November 14th, but today is the day for celebration…and the only thing we see all day about it, is that they charge an extra surcharge at breakfast because it is a "holiday"…real fun celebration! Like public holidays in the US, many people have the day off of work and school, and some businesses are closed, but nothing that effects us. We have a lot of things to bring with us today as we are bringing food for lunch, changes of clothes, towels, sunscreen, drinks and stinger suits. Because of all the things we need to haul we decide to Uber down to the pier for a 7:45 a.m . check-in. Walking would probably take 20-30 minutes. When we get in line to check in, we see a sign warning of rough seas today. It says if you want to reschedule you can ask when checking in. When we get to the counter I ask the lady ...