Saturday, 10/30/93, 7:30am
Sitting here on an airplane on the way to Sydney. I feel kind of lucky that we’re on this flight. For some reason, I spent the entire week thinking we were leaving Sunday morning, and luckily found out before today (Saturday) that I was wrong. But that story will come out later.
OK, now for Friday. We caught a bus up to the Daintree rainforest. We went through a “rainforest sanctuary” where we saw all kinds of plant and animal life, stopped at a number of other places along the way. We took yet another nature walk through a rainforest on the Mossman river, and then finished by bussing another 50Km north to Daintree.
We spent some time in the huge town of Daintree (population 600) and then went for a river tour to see birds, snakes and crocodiles in their native habitats.
A long bus ride back to Cairns to watch the results of the Lexus Marlin Classic come back in. Unfortunately there were no fish coming; Fortunately they are all tagged and released now, so they only get bigger each year. We did see some on the news that night. They are amazing! Up to 1200 pounds, and 3 meters long.
We walked up to the Roma Roulette for our free dinner (remember the free dinner I won on our first night?). We caught a taxi back to the hotel after dinner, and started joking around with Sue, Lyn and John. We were asking what to do on Saturday, when Lyn mentioned that they showed us checking out Saturday. I thought she was kidding, but just for kicks I checked the plane tickets. She was right! We would have slept right through the flight on Saturday morning! Then what would we have done?
So we had a bit of a panic-job Friday night, knowing that we had to get up at 4:15am to catch the flight. It was kind of amusing, but relieving at the same time.
Now we’re on an airplane just outside of Sydney, about 1/2 way through watching the film The Firm. It will be cutoff early because we’ll land by then. I guess I’ll just have to rent it when I get home…
We’ll be checking into the Cambridge Hotel (wherever that is) and I’ll continue with this saga later.
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