Today we boarded an early morning flight to Cairns. Cairns is in north Australia and about a 3 hour flight away from Melbourne.
When we arrived the weather was a lot warmer than Melbourne, but still a bit overcast.
After checking into the hotel, we took a little wander around the city and stopped at the local shopping mall. The esplanade is the "main drag" that overlooks the ocean, and has a ton of shops, resteraunts and tourist information centres.
After an afternoon of watching footy, we went for dinner on the esplanade at a nice Italian resteraunt. Following dinner we checked out the famous Cairns night market. The market contains all sorts of souvenir stalls, which were fun to look around at. Following the night market we checked out the Cairns casino. It is a smaller casino, but we enjoyed looking around and losing and few dollars on some bets.
After a long day of travel, it was early to bed to get set to enjoy our next day in a tropical Australian paradise.
