The Land Down Under: Day 18

For our last day in Cairns, we had planned to take a train ride through the rainforest in Queensland, but unfortunately, that didn't happen. Buying tickets required us to book through a third party (it seems like this is how all of the tours here are sold) and unlike our two boat tours over the past two days, this one stayed listed as "pending" while we waited to hear whether or not we had tickets. When C sent them an email to figure out what was going on, they told him that we did have a reservation and to check his email this morning, but when we did so, we were told they didn't have two seats together for us, so we cancelled our reservation. So ridiculous! And what an irritating process overall! I'm still a bit disappointed about the rainforest tour not happening, but we had a wonderful day in spite of that nonsense.

We walked around town and went to a great place for breakfast, then spent the afternoon at the Cairns Aquarium, learning all about Australian creatures. It's a very nice aquarium and the staff is extremely knowledgable and friendly, so it was definitely time well spent! It was also very hot and humid today, so being inside, enjoying the exhibits in a cool, dimly-lit building, was pretty perfect!

Happy Tails to you!