Sorry its been so long. We are playing with guinea pigs Horace and Shimmer which belong to our friend Anah who we met in Eungella. We also made another friend called Macey who lives here in Cairns too.

After Dad finished flying in Eungella we went to Airlie Beach and hired a yacht and went sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. We saw a big fish called Elvis, went snorkling it was fun but a bit scarey. Manta Ray bay was the best, Mackeral bay was good too. I caught a big fish that wrapped around the anchor 3 times but we got it. I had fun sailing in the rough water. We had a great time.

Next we went to Etty Bay and saw some wild cassowary's. Then we went to Paronella park which had some pretty gardens and our tour guide used to live in the house and they had a cool light show at night and we saw heaps of huge eels and we fed them. Now we are in Cairns Emily will update from here.

By Grace.

Hi Em here,

We have had fun here in Cairns catching up with our friends. We first stayed at Palm Cove and then we moved to Anah Cresswells for a week. We had a sleep over at Macey miss paceys house and ended up staying 2 nights. We caught a fish and some freshwater prawns out of the creek in there back yard. We went to Sugar World and went down some cool water slides.

Then we went to Cooktown and stayed at an Aboriginal mans place near the beach. It was a really bad track and daddy dinged his car and got mad. Now we are back in Cairns and are having fun with the guinea pigs. Soon we are leaving and I will be sad.

By Emily.

Our Friends Anah and Macey

Snorkeling

Elvis the Maori Wrass

fishing

Back to the Boat after snorkeling

Someone made this sand boat cool !

Relaxing on the boat

Cassowarys came to visit

Fair in Cairns with Anah

Oldest pub in Queensland near Cooktown.

The guinea pigs