Our Trip to Cairns

Carol and I went to Cairns leaving the kids at a friends house. We went for 5 days. Thats the longest Carol's been away from the kids. The main reason for going was my golden oldies rugby team entered a masters rugby tournament. It was pretty full on. They take their rugby pretty serious in Cairns. One of things we did was mud crabbing then fishing with a hand line. Trouchy (below) our maskot didn't catch a thing....and neither did I.
One of things Carol and I did was break away from the group and went snorkling. I had a great time. Carol had an ok time. She didn't like the 1.5 hour bout ride to the reef. I think she might have ate a bad prawn the night before. She's sure it had nothing to do with being the last to leave the pub the night before.

I will tell you about the Irish pub we went to. They had a couple of Irish guys singing some triditional tunes. We were sitting in a different part of the pub and we were not paying too much attention to them. I went to the counter for a drink and they were half way through Farewell to Nova Scotia. I thought it was brilliant. After giving them a hand with the song I got Carol and we chatted with the guys. Next thing you know they are belting out some Stan Rogers. Later in the evening they sang Farewell to Nova Scotia again(with my help) Poor Carol started to cry (and laugh at the same time). It was a great night.

This was on the river on our fishing trip.

A warm up before a game.

The Camden Rams on the score board.

Me in the bottom right. The only bright one in the crowd.

We needed to bring some beer for the fishing trip. We put a pretty good dent into the booze supply.

This is the nicest boat we saw.

Over all it was a great trip. 5 days to play 1 day of rugby. Both CArol and I had a blast.