Cairns

Cairns is the backpacking capital city of Australia and so we chose to stay at Gilligans, a backpacking hotel designed by Patriks architect firm. The city is not that large, but it offers hughe amount of activities such as bungy jumping, scuba diving, parashuting....

As a start we chose to go on a horse backriding adventure with Blazing Saddles in the topical rainforest.

Patrik on Clayton, Kristin on Bob Tail. Clayton and Bob Tail both behaved during the tour which we very much appreciated!

Bob Tail looking his best!

On Saturday afternoon we went for River rafting with Raging Thunder on the Barron River. With an outfit of helmets, lifevests, joggers and some swimwear we went down the fall for 1,5 hour experiencing the beautiful nature and an exciting journey.


The best part was when we in a more quiet part of the river could jump off the boat and body surf down the river!
Bums up!!! Very important as it will otherwise be very sore the day after. Floating along the river in our lifevests was quite possibly the best thing we've tried so far in Australia.

We saved the Crock visit for Sunday morning. Our tour began in Cairns harbour. The harbour hosts military boats as well as very extraordinary yachts.

An Australian military ship. Check out the helicopter deck on the yacht behind the military ship.

Our boat headed up the water system to get a view of the wild crocks and then a visit to the crock farm.

Here is a Crock relaxing in the sun amongst the Mangroves.

At the farm we saw a lot of crocks. They had 17.ooo of them. They raise them mainly for the skin which are used for handbags and shoes. One single crock skin can be worth 3600 aud!
They also sell the meat wich mostly goes to restaurant's. It's similar to chicken.
Feel free to read more about the Crock's here.

Crikey! That's alot of Crocks!

A big one! First he lies calmly on the beach. But when he see us he sudenly decide to take a swim instead.

Luckely for us he's behind the fence.