Sunday 5th October - back in Cairns

Got up early yesterday morning to go horseriding at 8am. The horse I was given was called Billy. We went horseriding through the rain forest, and then down onto the beach. We were supposed to canter on the beach but Billy decided he didn't fancy it so we didn't do more than trot. There were other people on the beach and he was pretty wary of them. After having photos taken we started to walk off the beach when a branch fell down from the coconut tree, which spooked a few of the horses, including Billy. Billy didn't really like walking through the puddles on the ground (it had been raining heavily the night before), so would avoid them which usually meant walking through the bushes and me getting soaked!

We then had another opportunity to canter, and he managed it that time. We stopped off for juice and crackers at one point during the morning, and then got back to the hostel by lunch time. After having lunch we had about 4 hours to wait for the bus to collect us to take us back to Cairns. We just sat in the bar, had a drink and played card games. The bus back took almost 3 hours, but thankfully I slept for most of it!! After getting back into Cairns, and eventually checking into our hostel (they'd made a mistake and booked us in for 2 nights starting on the day we're leaving!), we showered, had a pizza, a couple of drinks and then went to the Woolshed, which is an infamous club in Cairns. The tables are used for dancing, and you can drink Sex on the Beach slush puppies! Sinead and Annie joined the rest of us for that.

Got up about 9 2day coz we had 2 check out by 10, to check back in at 12. That's one annoying thing about hostels, u sometimes have to change rooms after a night or so and that involves checking out, storing your luggage, and then checking back in a couple of hours later. After checking out I wondered over to the shopping centre, and just browsed around the shops. Thinking this afternoon is going to be quite lazy again, coz we've got to catch a bus at 7 am tomorrow. Will prob go to the pub later though coz there's a rugby league final game on. It's the Manly Sea Eagles versus Melbourne Storm.