Greetings!
Well, somehow we lost a day - with great consequence. We have a restful but hot night at Discovery Caravan Park - pretty close to where we will drop off the van. We met a nice woman in the pool, and Gregory swapped notes with a Queensland surfer in the converted bus next to us.
When we awoke, we found we were to have dropped off the van on the fifth. And we missed our 10/5 flight. Egads. It was torture finding out the Jetstar phone number, and then trying to get the phone to connect with it. The Telstar helpline is useless, but we finally got through to rebook the flight for tonight. We also learned that: 1) Our car rental company will not deliver until the seventh because we arrive too late; and 2) we can't extend our Cairn's lodging an extra night.
Good news. It's only money. We can grab a taxi from the airport to our lodging. And the good all bloke at GotoVans did not make an issue about our broken headlight glass and lens ("you got platinum coverage mate"), and did not charge us for the extra day. We transferred our stuff to the extra baggage, and really worried about the weight. Yet somehow the airline accepted our three large bags as check-in luggage without any extra fees.
We carried on the green backpack, and our two day packs, and the purse, and no one batted an eye or even bothered to weight it. We boarded the plane to find it full (except one seat between us) so getting this flight booked only this morning was really lucky. We met a very nice couple returning home to Cairns after an outback holiday.
We didn't photograph anything.
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