Summer = rainy season in Far North Queensland, and while the turn to dry season is coming, today it has decided to rain cats, bats and dogs! It has taken just a week to fall in love with Cairns, the subtle, sweet smell to the air you can't quite put your finger on . . . the looming green, unspoiled mountains enveloping the coastline on one side, the vast, but buffered Coral sea on the other.
On my final morning here, I decided to join in on a 6:30am water aerobics session at the Esplanade Lagoon pool, a big salt water pool built by the city as the dredging of Trinity Inlet has made the coastal area directly in Cairns sort of a big mud flat, filled with crocodiles and sharks! I kid you not, as 100 of us were getting our cardiac workout in, a group walking by on the boardwalk deck was following a shark along the edge at high tide. I acted like a local and kept dog-paddling.
