Green (Turtle) Island

 It was 50 yar ago that a group of us went on a trip around Australia, on a long long bus ride. Along the way we stopped off at Green Island. Now back then there was not a lot there. We did walk around the island, had a swim and that was it.  It has changed. There is a hotel for one thing. A telephone tower, shops, plastic walkways all over ther place, a helicopter pad, get the picture. We did not snorkel way back then but we did this time. The swim was measured at 800m in 40 minutes aided by a vest and the highlight was the turtles. These ones are so used to people. There was some colour to the coral but you had to look deep in the cracks. The fish were plentiful and colourful. Despite all the crowds and the constructions, the reef is surviving here. I have some turtle film to be revealed.

Ulysses

 I am 70 yar old and 71 yar ago the Ulysses film came out starring Kirk Douglas. It made an impression when I first watched it as a 10 yar old. Now as it happens there is a picture theatre right across the road from where we are staying here. So we booked a ticket for the afternoon session and relived the Essendon days by having sliders at Grill'd. The new film is long and loud and has less emphasis on Gods than its predecesor. I can remember a lot of that first film but would be interesting to find a copy to watch again somewhere. We tried the rooftop pool for an hour or so before retreating.

Orientation Day

balcony coconut

 Yes just getting refamiliar with the Cairns layout of this town this morning. For the first time we are staying away from the water's edge, although in this town you are never far away from anything. We walked to the pier where we are leaving on a jaunt tomorrow morning and as it turns out they are driving us there but we did the walk in 15 minutes. We have mountain views out of this room's balcony and the shops are so close being in this part of town. We continued the loop walk back along the river for coffee at Wharf One cafe. Today is a slow day and one nophasement moment we had concerned the main Flying Fish pool, which the council closed TODAY for maintenance but we are assured it will reopen next week.

Travel Day

 At the risk of canceling my fourth straight airplane flight in a row, for some reason I was doing the remote check in for the airline flights. I have not done this before and there is a question there that blatantly wants to know how you feel. I have had a runny nose  for three nights with bad sleep to go with it. My head has been sore but I answered no to being sick. I mean define sick, like throwing up sick, so I answered no. The entire day was spent getting here and I made it in one piece. So now I have get with the program. We have found our room after negotiating the lock boxes. The aircon works but we have no parking space in this building, so no phasements.

Expedia infiltration

 I have always wanted to try the Wotif travel site. I have generally booked and arranged trips months in advance and it seemed like a good time to try this as we are genuinely wanting to selvage something out of the shambles that the appendix left of our last effort.  So I found a place on there that was available and booked it. I think the original idea of advertising cancellations and last minute deals on here has gone out the window.  Microsoft have taken over.  The apartment host sends me messages via VRBO which do not work. I click on those links and get sent to the STAYZ website which I have used in the past. This tells me this trip info is blocked on this website. They suggest using the phone app. The VRBO app will not install and the other two apps have no info, so we are back to old fashioned emails.  Since when have emails been old fashioned.

Nice Beach

 The Tour de Femmes is finishing in Nice and those distant views of the beach area look very enticing.  We went there by boat but it anchored in the next bay so we took a taxi up over the hill where the riders were coming down on their run into Nice.  As for the beach, you need to wear beach shoes and have a thickish mat to put down becuase that whole thing is rocky. There is a sandy spot they have trucked in for the beach volleyball but that was it.  I assume there is sand out there so maybe they can do the Surfers Paradise trick and use a pump to put sand all over the shore. Just a thought.

Clouds in the back of your Eyes

 A skin doc, a dentist and a registrar walked into a room. The patient was told from the bridge of your nose down to the tip of your toes we've done the tests that everyone knows. We do get caught out with the optometry notes, the way that they word it, their eye ball quotes.  So we'll forget the clouds at the back of the eyes and try a new pill and try a new size.  Your system will moderate, it will not be supressed, we'll see you in four weeks, you'll be impressed.

Some of these meetings are quite over the top and it is never will the same derm team.