Cairns - Torres Strait
7/08/2005
Fine and sunny in Cairns, went out early and had breakfast at a place on the esplanade, what a pleasant climate - about 20C, with a very light breeze.
Two hour flight to Horn Island, then a very expensive bus and ferry ride across to Thursday Island. This is like a real frontier town - very utilitarian. For a very small island (it takes about two hours to walk around the coast) it has a surprising number of vehicles. Lots of boats parked around town,
I don't understand how the island supports itself - everthing has to be imported, and with the distances and transport involved must be very expensive.
Roast dinner at the motel - we travel all the way to the tropics for roast beef.
Fine and sunny in Cairns, went out early and had breakfast at a place on the esplanade, what a pleasant climate - about 20C, with a very light breeze.
Two hour flight to Horn Island, then a very expensive bus and ferry ride across to Thursday Island. This is like a real frontier town - very utilitarian. For a very small island (it takes about two hours to walk around the coast) it has a surprising number of vehicles. Lots of boats parked around town,
I don't understand how the island supports itself - everthing has to be imported, and with the distances and transport involved must be very expensive.
Roast dinner at the motel - we travel all the way to the tropics for roast beef.
posted by -=rjh=- at Monday, August 29, 2005
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