I Cairn't Think Of A Title But Look At All These Waterfalls (and cows)

Whenever a prudential salesperson approaches me and then lies about how long they'll take despite me specifically telling them that I have places to be or am in kind of a rush, I give them a fake number. The other day I was wondering if there was this poor soul who I had essentially doomed to  prudential people constantly calling about savings plans so I googled the number and it was a number in Australia.

Which is cool! Because I am in Australia!

Hell yeah!!

Me and my mom flew to Cairns and it's like the third or fourth day now but wifi here is Not Great and also I am Extremely Lazy so everything will likely be posted later, if they go up at all. (I never finished the europe posts. Lmao. Although I am not surprised due to How I Am As A Person).

Our flight landed at about 5ish on the 15th and the next day was just groceries and stuff. On the 17th tho, we went on a drive down from cairns to Atherton to look at wATERFALLS and stuff. There's this thing called the waterfall circuit in the more south area but we decided to make a few other stops along the way.

• I was really excited about water falls for some reason 

Atherton's like an hour and a half down from Cairns so there was a fair bit of driving and pretty windy roads sometimes because mountains and whatever

• Surprisingly!!!! Didn't get car sick.
• Hell yeah. 
• SAW SO MANY COWS. HOLY SHIT. THERE IS SO MUCH FARM. FARM ANIMALS ARE EXCITING
• Also, nice scenery.

I READ A MAP AND STUFF but mainly relied on gps lmao

Heale's Outlook (or something) 

cow

classic cow

a lot of potential steak

Other attempts of taking photos of cows

The first stop we made was at the Curtain Fig Tree. Which TURNS OUT is this asshole tree that germinated o this other tree and killed it causing it to fall on to this other tree that was probably all like 'wtf' and the Asshole Tree's roots just continued to grow downwards and made a curtain.

rude

v tall asshole tree

!!! horses

Also there were chickens. Just like. Chilling. 

Once we decided we had sufficiently beheld the Curtain Fig Tree, we drove down to Malanda for the first waterfall 

My mom was underwhelmed

There was this platypus viewing thing that was on the way to Millaa Millaa falls so we made a stop there because platypus (platypi??) are cUTE as hECK. Rules were as followed: 

• Keep talking so they know you're not trying to hide 
• No umbrellas because they may think it's a bird 
• Don't talk loudly or move suddenly because that may scare them 

We kept thinking this turtle popping up was a platypus

Got a lot of platypus butt photos 

Millaa Millaa Falls is the first waterfall on the waterfall circuit and apparently like the ''''posterboy waterfall''' of Athertons 

*tries to strategically take photo so that people swimming at the bottom aren't in it*
*Somehow cannot manage that* 

The next two falls were Zillie and Elinjaa. We couldn't find any other vantage point of Zillie but Elinjaa was gr8. 

Zillie Falls

Not a very good photo of Zillie Falls

That part before the falls where cartoon characters try to furiously peddle back to safety

It's the IKEA dragon!

@myface y r u doing that

Ur socks sir

We intended to see Mungalli and Josephine but we kinda missed the turning for both of those stops. So. Also time constraints. 

• We did see like a miLLION creeks tho. There are a lot of creeks 
• Also some other random road stuff 
• Frog on Banana
• Giant Fish 
• Murdering Sign Board. 

Surprise, Beach. (I bet you thought you saw the last of me)

Exams ended last week which means I've spent the same amount of time laying in bed but much less of that time is spent going "god i need to study".

Before I start off I'd like to say that either I or my computer junked up and my photos all got deleted while I was transferring them from my phone BUT THANKFULLY I sent 2/3 of them to Audrey so I just saved those but ofc I still lost like 50 photos (some of which were really A+++) and whatsapp sent photos don't have the best quality 

Three weeks ago, Audrey (hi audrey) found out about this ~secret hideout-y beach~ which is really just one of Singapore's offshore islands, specifically Lazurus Island.

Crappy photo i took of the map at the train station 

Ferry timings on Sundays are much more regular and convenient than any other day, leaving Marina South Pier every two hours from 9-5 as opposed to the two or three ferries from Monday to Saturday.

We left on the 1pm ferry that brought up to St. John's island and I spent a lot of time complaining about how the boat was swaying because yes a boat swaying in the ocean is such a surprise, wow I did not expect that. Someone brought their husky onto the boat which was SO EXCITING that I accidentally hit Audrey in the face in my haste to tell her there was a husky on board.

Aside from the Husky, the 20 minute boat ride was fairly uneventful.

 this is the only photo i got because firstly i was not enthusiastic to stand up on a moving boat and secondly because the gunwales were consistently occupied

At St.John's Jetty

While researching the Island's we found out that there were a junk load of cats on St.John's island and I was arguably more excited about that than anything else. So ofc the first order of business was to go find some cats and take 30 pictures of them. We turned left and, maybe in about 10 meters, there was this little grassy patch that had four cats sleeping. FOUR CATS. IN ONE PLACE. I took a bunch of photos.

cat feat my weather confused ootd

cat why are you making that face

Anyway we finally moved on from the cats and made our way to the beach. I DON'T KNOW WHY but we, or at least I, were under the impression that it would be a fairly decent stroll to Lazurus Island's beach but nO it was sunny as heck and I am whiney as hECK.

We saw some nice ocean stuff tho.

this is not a very good photo why did i take it

Other than the short walk on the connector from St. John's Island to Lazurus Island, the rest of the walk was mainly just trees and other plant things.

still nice to look at but I do not handle sun well

We almost gave up because after about half an hour we started to doubt if we were even heading in the right direction but through a series of (two) fortunate events - namely, Audrey suggesting we walk in the shade and me getting distracted by a boat sail - we stumbled upon the beach. I feel like I should use more adjectives.

pictures, thousand words, lazy blogging, you know the drill. 

we saw some Lalang and the first thing Audrey did was pluck out a hand full and go
"I AM KILLING YOU IN FRONT OF YOUR FAMILY" 

The beach was fairly empty but we still made our way further down where my scarf transformed into a mat because I am resourceful and we had lunch

"Let's take a picture of our food"
"What why"
"I want people to know I leave my house" 

"Distributaries!"
"Those aren't distributaries."  

we saw some crab holes I think  

Audrey promptly tried to kill them 

We left at about 3 to catch the 350 boat from the Pier and on the way back I took more photos of cats because cats.

ahh claws

It's a one eyed cat and I'd name it Frank

We took the boat to Kusu Island which is turtle island; there's a whole back story for that but I am not a good story teller. Basically a turtle turned itself into an island for two sailors.

Obligatory tourist shot 

We saw this wising well and I looked further down and then this conversation happened

"Look a turtle!"

"Oh my god! Wait is it real?"

"I don't know, it doesn't really look real"

"Yeah, I think its a statue"

And then we walked away. I will bring this back later.

Being turtle island, it had it's fair amount of turtles, real and fake.

"It looks like the top turtle is the top asshole turtle. And the other two and trying to overthrow it." 

"Go sit down I'll take a photo of you" 

It turns out that Kusu Island also has it's own beaches, albeit much much much smaller, but what it likes in size it makes up for in emptiness.

hi audrey

Audrey was really excited about walking along the breakwater and then we got closer and chickened out because it looked unstable and we are wimps basically 

is it obvious we were hiding under shade 

teeny tiny hazy skyline 

After we walked an entire round and reached the pier again, we still had an hour before the boat arrived so we just sat in a gazebo like bums.

Anyway we went back to the wishing well place because the jetty was right next to it and then I looked down and gUESS WHAT the turtle statue was gone. From head to toe, it was a meter long. It was a real turtle. AND NO ONE KNEW. Sorry for the anti-climax but if you want you could pretend it's a magic statue that dissapears as the sunset for spiritual reasons that'll be cool right.

Anyway we got on the boat and got stuck on the top deck which was TERRIBLE because it shook a lot and sometimes if lifts go too quickly I get motion sickness it was not a pleasant ride is what I'm saying