Cairns with a Hobart Interlude! (26th August)

After picking up the car we drove down to Mourilyan (south of Innisfail) to catch up with Margy and Joseph who have a cane property on the Moresby River.  I have know Margy since the early 60's so as you can imagine it is always great to catch up.  Margy has been running the café at the Sugar Museum but is about to give that away on the 30th August and don't think the days can come quick enough.




On the Thursday (14th August) we say our farewells and head back up to Cairns via Atherton, Mareeba and Kuranda which was a lovely drive apart from the rainy conditions.  The next few days we spend pottering around Cairns and were lucky enough to spend a few lazy afternoons sunning ourselves by the Esplanade Pool which was rather nice.  We also arranged another delivery of Coles Online and now the boat is full to the brim for our trip up to Lizard Island.

As strange as this may seem we have to take what we are now referring to as a 'reverse holiday' and head down south for 1 week.  The main reason is to attend Jonathan (my nephew) and Carmel's, wedding in Hobart.  On Tuesday the 19th we flew down to Melbourne and spent a couple of nights down at sunny Safety Beach before flying down to Hobart on the Friday for the wedding on Saturday.

Salamanca Market

On the morning of the wedding we went for a wander down to Salamanca Place and the market which was fantastic especially as a number of the stalls were selling local Tassie made produce or items.  It was then back to the hotel to get ready for the wedding which was quite an experience as we have not worn proper shoes or fancy clothes for a number of years now so we definitely were not in our natural habitat!.






The wedding was held at St Mary's Cathedral with the reception at MONA.  What a great day and to make it even better it is also a bit of a Hollamby family reunion which only happens about every 8-10 years as my brother and his wife live O/S. 

On the Sunday we went down to one of the local cafe's for the post wedding rehabilitation party which was a really nice way to spend the afternoon as we got to spend a bit more time with the family and also some of Jon and Carmel's friends which was a lot of fun..








After our goodbyes we are back to Melbourne for the night at Miss Amanda's who put us up for the night which was fantastic and also arranged for a bit of a dinner at the Wick with Miss Leapy and Al and Jude which was great.  Tuesday and we are up early to catch the flight back to Cairns - we were very happy to arrive to a warm sunny day and back to our normal attire of shorts and thongs!

Miss Lynda arrived on Wednesday and quickly settled in to the conditions!  Today we are off to do the last of the shopping and tomorrow we are on our way to Port Douglas before heading north to Lizard Island *yay*

As there is not a lot of internet access at LI we may not be able to do any blogging until we are on our way back south so if you don't see any new posts for a while you will know why.