Thursday, August 28, 2025
A 6:10 flight, lasting three hours, took us from Sydney to Cairns, Queensland.
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| The hotel stored our luggage as we set out to explore |
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| Cairns Aquarium (2015-2017) |
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| Gymnothorax polyuranodon/Freshwater Eel |
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| Lates calcarifer/Barramundi |
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Cherax quadricarinatus/Red-claw Crayfish (this
one must be a female with no red patches) |
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Coco, a life-size replica (2025) of the
Crocodylus porosus/Estuarine Crocodile |
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Tropidonophis mairii/Keelback Snake is one of the few
snakes that can eat the toxic Rhinella marina/Cane Toads |
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| Time to clean the tank with a suction hose |
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| Varanus mertensi/Mertens' Water Monitor |
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| Hypsilurus boydii/Boyd's Water Dragon |
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| Litoria infrafrenata/White-lipped Tree Frog |
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| Platax pinnatus/Pinnate Batfish |
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| Panulirus versicolor/Painted Crayfish |
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Coral Reef with Cheilinus undulatus/
Humphead Wrasse at the top (KSS) |
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Heniochus acuminatus/Pennant
Coralfish (KSS) |
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| Siganus corallinus/Coral Rabbitfish (KSS) |
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Coral including a tiny Amphiprion perideraion/
Pink Anemonefish in the center 2/3 down (KSS) |
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| Aurelia sp./Moon Jelly |
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| Triaenodon obesus/Whitetip Reef Shark |
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| Rays (KSS) |
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| Aptychotrema rostrata/Eastern Shovelnose Ray (KSS) |
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| Feeding the rays (KSS) |
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Returned Services League/RSL (est 1916 in support of
World War I veterans, building 1965) is similar to
the American Legion in the United States, which
means they often have a restaurant open to the public |
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For lunch we each had half the Fisherman's Plate with
scallops, barramundi, prawns, and calamari rings
served with chips and house salad |
Next: Cairns, AU II.
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