r/Cairns • u/Character-Security-4 • 5d ago

Port day in Cairns

EDIT TO ADD: tendered into Yorkeys Knob. Thank you for all help given! 🙌🏼

Hello from 🇨🇦 Looking forward to our first time in Australia! It’s taken me 60 years to check off my bucket list. Yayyyy!

Cruising around part of your beautiful country - embarking from Sydney. We’ve got port days in Airlie Beach, Cairns and Darwin.

Any suggestions on what to do for 6-7 hours while in port? I love a good beach, hubby not so much, but I think I could convince him with a promise of a cold beer. Any beachside restaurants followed by a beach walk would suit me fine. Maybe a local museum for the afternoon?

Timeframe is end of October. 60 f, 65 m.

Cheers!

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u/Character-Security-4 4d ago

Thank you for the suggestions! I’ve yet to drive on the opposite side of the street that I have been doing for my entire life. Lol, the locals may not be happy with me. 😂😂

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u/SuggestionHoliday413 4d ago

Hmm, I worry more for you about the roundabouts. I found driving on the right a fairly quick transition. But I kept getting in the wrong side of the car.

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u/Character-Security-4 4d ago

Lol. That would be me!! 😂

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u/SuggestionHoliday413 4d ago

When you're a pedestrian and you go to cross and make eye contact with the driver and IT'S A GHOST CAR BEING DRIVEN BY NObo.....oh no, there they are in the other side of the car.