Welcome to Australia and thanks Brant!

Day 13: Cairns

After 7 hours flight we have arrived to Cairns, took a taxi till shopping center, which was the meeting point with our host – Frank.

Since we have arrived to the shopping center, Raintrees, at 7 am, we have decided to wait till decent hour to call Frank. Meanwhile, the Mall has opened at 7.30 (never happens in Europe!) and I have bought some food for the breakfast and Australian SIM card of local operator Telstra (SIM card cost 2$ + 20$ credit recharge.

At around 9 am Frank came and picked us up, we dropped bags at his place and went back to the shopping center to buy a plug adaptor for European cables (to connect all our gadgets to Australian plugs, you know :-D

People told us plug adaptors we can find at post office and here in post office a miracle happened to us. While we were asking where actually we can buy those adaptors and how to get there (pointing on touristic map of Cairns), a man waiting in line after us just said (probably tired of waiting :-D : “ don’t worry, I will give you a lift to the central shopping mall where you can buy them”. Okkk, so he gave us a lift and actually spend with us 3 full days :-DD

Brant, our new Australian friend, was working as fireman and actually got these days off work (lucky us!). He was kind of superman, Bruce Willies in “Die hard” – fit, sporty, jumping, walking without flip flops through the rain forest, swimming, sliding , climbing – you know, real Australian as we imagine them in Europe :-D


He drove us with his car to see Josephine falls – a splendid waterfalls in the middle of the rain forest, where you can swim in a sweet water and slide on the rock, he showed us his house – on the top of the hill with fantastic view, took us to see local harbor – the day was completely full :-D



Next day we have agreed to meet and see some surroundings and wallabies – small kangaroos which are famous from this area.

We have arrived to Franks house, cooked potato omelet and had a quiet dinner with a glass of red wine.

Some words about Frank: first of all we knew that Frank was gay and nudist (he mention on his profile) and that was no problem since we have plenty of gay friends and nudism really its personal choice and doesn’t bother us at all.

What was a bit bothering is 1,000 rules Frank has in his house:

-Use a sand clock in the shower not to spend there more then 3 minutes
-Lock your room when you leave and lock all the doors even if you are home
-Doesn’t bring bottled water at home, drink rain water he gathers with a special rain water tank
-If you want to cut food for cooking, you have 3 different woods to cut things: one for vegetables, one for meet and one for bread
-Recycle everything and don’t bring plastic bags to the house

It was a bit freaky I can admit to follow all those rules, I felt like in a closed institution :-D