Being A Tourist - Day 8

There's not a lot you can say about the Undara Lava Tubes. They're interesting, I enjoyed the tour but I can't for the life of me think of anything even vaguely entertaining to write here. They were formed by a shield volcano (that's one of the flatter ones that have a constant lava flow as opposed to the steeper once that have sporadic, violent eruptions, fact fans) a long long time ago, before even the Rolling Stones started making music and Cher discovered face lifts. The lava flowed and hardened on the outside but the centre remained molten and flowed right out thus forming the tubes.

So yeah, they're worth a visit I reckon and its a nice place to stay overnight.

By the time we got back to Cairns it was pissing it down, I didn't know whether to have a shower or just stand in the street for 10 minutes. Apart from, like, seven drops of rain in Broome once I hadn't seen anything falling from the sky since Perth. Weird.

Anyway, tonight I was going to have a brief Backpacker Interlude before we headed up to Cape Tribulation the next day. Irma, a Dutch girl I'd met in Alice and who I was slowly becoming overly fond of and a few of her mates rocked up to Cairns so I armed myself with a bag of goon and wandered over to their hostel where I proceeded to get very drunk and stay up past my bedtime so I kidnapped Irma and made her stay awake with me until Mum and Dad came and picked me up. I'm sure it was a lovely drive but I slept all the way through it.

I should imagine it'll be just as lovely on the way back down.

written by

Koala Bear on October 12, 2007 from Cairns, Australia

from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz

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