Our 2025 Trip to Cairns and O'Reilly's, Queensland

Navigating these pages: In the following itinerary, there are several columns describing the day. Text within [brackets] in the heading line explains the purpose of the link to the corresponding item.

Day(Trip)
shows the ordinal number of the day of travel, and in parentheses, the day of the Trip. Note that I number the starting day with 0-origin indexing, whereas travel companies use 1-origin indexing. I do this a) because I am a computer scientist, and b) the "first" day is usually not part of the trip.
Date [Photos]
Clicking on a link in this column will take you to the corresponding photo album page for the day. Due to space considerations, the original photos are not stored here (only the "medium" and "large" sizes). If you want to see the originals, please visit one of my other servers at ajh.co
Time
All times are local times, with offset from UTC (if known) in parentheses. Where a range is given, it shows the hours of travel for the day. This can give anomalous timings when travel across time zones is involved. Where a change of time zone is involved, offsets from UTC are given in parentheses. A single UTC offset indicates the local time for the day, and if multiple UTC offsets are given, these indicate the UTC zones travelled. Calendar dates are always local to the starting time zone, trip days are elapsed night times.
Activity [Blog]
What we did that day. This is usually a link to a later part of the page, describing in more detail what we did that day. Sometimes this is two parts: What they said, and What we did. This is to record what was planned, versus what actually happened.
Locations [Track]
Where we were that day. Where this is a link, it will take you to the track for the day. These are separate html pages. Not all days were tracked, and these days will have no link to open. Sometimes the voyages and walks are shown separately; others are combined.
Accomodation
Just to show we didn't sleep on the streets.
Notes
Bookings, Maps and various Travel Documents. For privacy reasons, these documents are not loaded to the public server.
Steps
as recorded by my Garmin watch for the day.

Within the diary entries, the date heading is a link to the photo page (as for the itinerary). The day of the week/ordinal number is a link back to the itinerary, and the day's title is a link to the track (as for the itinerary).

These pages are under construction, and may have anomalous entries. Note that the pages will change over time as I edit in travel progress. Note also that when the document refers to 'John', the author is assumed, unless stated otherwise. Entries in red still require attention. Where an entry is preceded by a © symbol, it means that the entry has not been fully completed.

Items listed under Documents are not publically available. Access to private documents is restricted.

Itinerary

Day Date Time Place Blog Track Sleep Notes To Pay Due Steps Documents
0 28 Sep (Sun) 1425-1750 QF 704 MEL-CNS Melbourne to Cairns TBA
1 29 Sep (Mon) TBA
1 30 Sep (Tue) TBA
3 01 Oct (Wed) TBA
4 02 Oct (Thu) TBA
5 03 Oct (Fri) TBA
6 04 Oct (Sat) TBA
7 05 Oct (Sun) 0945-1200 JQ 893 CNS-OOL Cairns to O'Reilly's TBA
8 06 Oct (Mon) TBA
9 07 Oct (Tue) TBA
10 08 Oct (Wed) TBA
11 09 Oct (Thu) 1455-1820 VA 742 OOL-MEL O'Reilly's to Melbourne TBA

Trip Blog

28 Sep 2025, Sunday (Day 0), Getting There

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