Cairns Qld Monday 15 August 2022
Cairns Qld Monday 15 August 2022 Up early, fed and ready to hit the tour at 7am, we all trooped don to the wharf to wait for the big ferry to take us to Horn Island. Horn Island was offering a guided tour of WWII gun emplacements and slit trenches and a museum. All the handiwork of Vanessa over a 27 year period. Horn Island is also where the airport is and a big bird to take us to Cairns, which as the day wore on, beckoned ever so strongly. And so we waited and waited. Word finally came that the big ferry hadn’t even left and didn’t look like it was ever going to anytime soon. This is Monday and a pile of people need to get to and from TI and Horn island, but hey, who cares? Fortunately the Outback Spirit credit card ruled the day and that Yellow School bus was hired to take us and anyone else who could cram on. At Horn, Vanessa and her bus finally turned up and took us to a hotel, which also houses her museum. After she fiddled about a bit we were off on our tour. We saw a ...