Got up with the intention of checking out of Dreamtime and making my way to Gilligan’s. I figured Jon and Max were here, with Theresa and Barbara arriving in the evening, plus reviews had been outstanding.<\/p>\n
I dropped my bags off at the hostel, then headed out to see about getting my memory card working. Back at the internet cafe, I downloaded some recovery software and set it to work. It took well over an hour, but nearly everything seems to have been recovered, thankfully.<\/p>\n
Checked my email while the recovery was underway, and found out that Jon and Max are now staying at another hostel. Theres is a little cheaper, but apparently dirty too. Where I am is about as luxury as you can get for a hostel – better than some $100+ hotels I’ve stayed in, but for the same price as a hostel. Not sure how they’re making money, but I’ve got a nice deck, there’s a huge pool, air conditioning (which Dreamtime didn’t have – hence the move), and a great location. Wet T-shirt contests on Sunday to boot. Apparently you can win $500, so wish me luck.<\/p>\n
I was supposed to meet up with Jon and Max at noon (midday), but because my card was still being recovered, I couldn’t make it. I walked around Cairns (quite a small town, and 90% of the shops are tourist related), hoping to find them, to no avail.<\/p>\n
I had my first meal since the plane – I’d completely lost my appetite after losing all my pictures, but, like the pictures, it was back with gusto. Grabbed a burger in the nice air conditioned restaurant (did I mention the humidity? It’s my way of getting around complaining about the heat – I’ll just complain about the humidity), and looked out the window, hoping to see Jon or Max walk by.<\/p>\n
After dinner I checked into the aforementioned hostel, and grabbed some stuff to go swimming. Cairns has no beach, but there’s a man-made lagoon that will do in a pinch. All set, I started walking to the lagoon when I stumbled on Jon and Max (I mentioned Cairns was a small place, right?). They’d been researching diving\/snorkelling trips and Cape Tribulation, which was what I’d have been doing if I wasn’t stuck in an Internet Cafe for so long. I was going to suggest renting a car and checking out the Cape on our own, but they mentioned it first. We popped into a few travel agencies and got some prices. Should be quite feasible, and a lot cheaper than doing it with a tour. We’re going to arrange things with Theresa and Barbara when they get to Cairns tonight.<\/p>\n
Back at my hostel, my two roommates have returned from their trip to the reef. They are two German girls – Julia and Lina, but I haven’t talked to them too much as they rushed off to dinner shortly after I arrived. They seem friendly enough, though.<\/p>\n
In the evening I headed to Asylum to meet up with Jon and Max and the two arrivals from Cairns. We’re going to rent a car on Sunday and head up to Cape Tribulation<\/a> and the surrounding area for two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got up with the intention of checking out of Dreamtime and making my way to Gilligan’s. I figured Jon and Max were here, with Theresa and Barbara arriving in the evening, plus reviews had been outstanding. I dropped my bags off at the hostel, then headed out to see about getting my memory card working. … Continue reading “From Dreamtime to Gilligan’s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cairns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}