ABC Wednesday, C of Cairns Crystal Cascades

 

The last days of my stay in Australia, we spent near Cairns in a holiday park called Cairns Crystal Cascades Holiday Park. There are various types of cabins from simple to very luxuriously equipped villas with a bath. All of them are self contained. We saw also grass campsites for those who love camping, like we did when we were young.

 

There is a pool for the swimmers and we did some bushwalking in the late afternoon. It's a beautiful park and it offers a lot of possibilities to do birdwatching, bicycle riding, horse riding,  a game of golf a snorkelling or diving expedition with one of the local tour operators. 

My daughter and granddaughters

 The park was very peaceful and quiet when we were there.

Some bushes still had beautiful flowers.

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Bench of the Week, Weekend Reflections, Australia Queensland,

These photos show part of the Esplanada(see previous post) in Cairns. You can sit there, walk and have a meal or admire the seabirds. For children ( and also adults!!) there is a pool where they can paddle on warm days.

 
 
 
 

Click to see more details. The two bottom photos show the very shallow pool.

These photos were taken in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, where my daughter, her son, his father and I spent some days in 2008. We were on our way to my other daughter in Cooktown, 360 kms more northwards.


RuneE of Visual Norway
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Weekend Reflections was started on 27 September 2009, by James. You can join this meme at some time during the weekend. Just post your photo and go to James to tell him that you are on, or click on the logo in the sidebar.This meme is created for any type of reflection.

ABC Wednesday, E for Esplanade in Cairns

Click to enlarge these photos from the Esplanade in Cairns. See the seabirds!!

A notable feature of the Cairns esplanade is a swimming lagoon with adjoining barbecue areas. A boardwalk allows pedestrians and cyclists to move along the foreshore from the lagoon in a sustainable manner See Wikipedia.

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Bench of the Week in Cairns

 

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In one of the shopping centres of Cairns( see post below), we found this colourful bench.A piece of art perhaps? The photo was taken by my Dutch daughter

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.Her friend Malyss. has shown more than 600 benches on a site called "benchesonmyway".

ABC Wednesday, C for Cairns.

Click on photos to see more details. One of the hotels on the Esplanade.

When I arrive in Australia to see my daughter, we often stay at the "Gray Whale", a motel in Cairns, because Cooktown, where my daughter lives, is 360kms from Cairns, and I always arrive early in the morning.She meets me at the airport, we have breakfast and go to the motel or hotel.We do the same when I leave. Sometimes, however, we stay at a holiday resort (see slide).The two bottom photos are from the Esplanade.

Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The city itself was named after William Wellington Cairns (the then Governor of Queensland). It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but experienced a decline when an easier route was discovered from Port Douglas. It later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold, metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region.

The city is rapidly expanding, with a population of 122,731 at the 2006 census.Tourism is the largest income producer for the region, followed closely by the sugar industry.

Cairns is a popular travel destination for foreign tourists because of its tropical climate and proximity to many attractions. The Great Barrier Reef can be reached in less than an hour by boat. Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation, about 130 km (81 mi) north of Cairns, are popular areas for experiencing a tropical rainforest. It is also a starting point for people wanting to explore Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, and the Atherton Tableland.

The city has used its natural surroundings to its advantage, with the construction of several small theme parks for tourists. Among them are Rainforestation Nature Park, Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, and Kuranda Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, which extends for 7.5 km (4.7 mi) over World Heritage rainforest.( see Wikipedia)

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC.For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar or Here. This week we are looking for words beginning with C.