After a shorter flight we landed into a smaller airport, grabbed our bags and went out to catch a bus to our hostel. We waited for awhile in the hot sun until a bus drove into the parking lot. It was partially full and by the time everybody else at the bus stop had gotten on there were four seats left. So we split up. Mom, Sage, Zaddek, and I took the bus and Dad and Kaden caught a taxi awhile later. We showed up at the hostel only minutes apart and checked into our room. It was 3 bunk beds with a little air conditioner in the wall above one of the beds. Right as we entered the new room Dad got a call from the snorkelling tour company that we couldn't go on our trip to the Great Barrier Reef the next day. Australia was hit by a massive heat wave with the hottest temperatures of the last century. Our last chance to go was going to be two days from then when the heat wave might end. So we pushed our reservation at the hostel for the next couple of nights and made plans to head up to the Daintree Rainforest the next day.
We walked a few blocks along the boardwalk to a nice Irish restaurant the hostel had recommended and had great veggie burgers for dinner. On the way back we even saw some huge bats swarming the sky.
It was too dark to get a good photo of the ones that were in the trees above our heads but they look like this...
(photo by Jacque de Speville)
Once we got back we found out they were flying foxes also known as fruit bats. They are one of the largest bats in the world. Our hostel room felt like it was a hundred degrees so we turned on the AC just to find out it didn't work so we got a terrible night sleep.
Total planes: 1
Total shuttles: 1
Total miles walked: 2.4 miles
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