Today we headed out for Cairns, which was the last city we would be staying in for the rest of the trip. Cairns was not what I expected out of Australians winter time, because when people say save the best for last, Cairns was a great example. It had the best and nicest hotel we've stayed in for the entire trip, the scenery was excellent and there was no bad weather, plus it had a nice small town area that was perfect for us when we went out on our own to explore the area. We hadn't much planned for the day, so after we unloaded our luggage into our rooms, we got our bathing suits to go out swimming. At first I thought we were going to the beach, but when we got up to the water I realized the shallow, muddy, crab infested waters could hardly be recognizable as a beach. Thankfully that's not where we were going, it turns out we were headed for a public pool. I though it would be alright, but the water was so cold that I couldn't stay in for even five minutes. So instead we went to get something to eat and play catch with a rugby ball, it was a better alternative for having fun at the pool. When we were all done, we met up back at the hotel and got in groups of four to go out and check out the town. At first, we mainly saw hotels and we couldn't decide where to eat, so we just stuck it to markets and open fields to play around with our boomerangs. Then to take up the rest of the time, we went to swim at the hotel pool (we heard it was heated so we figured it had to be better than the public pool. Unfortunately they closed it up, but thankfully an attendant let up open it back up as long as we closed it when we were finished. After some swimming we realized it wasn't as warm as we thought it would be so we headed for the hot tub. It was very relaxing to sit in and soon became a great hangout spot as soon as more people started to arrive. This turned out to be a better day than I thought, and it made me upset when I realized we would be leaving in a couple days.
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