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Cairns Adventure Film Festival 2011

CAFF 2011 EVENT TEASER from CAFF Australia on Vimeo.

Don’t bet on the joys of the pokies

From Grog's Gamut: Don’t bet on the joys of the pokies

Flying over Barron Falls 21/03/11

An early morning flight out of Cairns heading north past the Barron Gorge and Kuranda. Click in the photo to enlarge. There is still quite a bit of water coming down the river and as a result the falls are still quite spectacular. On the far side of the Gorge you can see the track of the Kuranda railway line and to the right of the falls you can just make out the towers of the Kuranda cableway. The dam at the top of the falls provides water for the hydro electric power station located in the Gorge below the falls.

An Interview with Bear Stanley 1995

A rare interview with Bear Stanley. On several occasions Bear graced the studios of former Cairns community radio station 4CCR in the late nineties and was certainly a larger than life character. Bear passed away on the weekend in a tragic car accident on the Kennedy Highway near Mareeba. Here is a rare radio interview conducted with Bear around this time this time (not from 4CCR unfortunately).


Tributes to Bear Stanley

The waiting game

Quite a crowd at the Flecker Botanical Gardens this weekend as visitors hope to see Titan Arum, the largest flower in the world in bloom. Not yet but it must be soon. Maybe the burst of fine weather we are experiencing as Cyclone Anthony drifts away from the coast might encourage 'Hannibal' and 'Spud' to do something.

STOP PRESS! Monday: It decided to open today:-)

David Rentz has been fortunate to have a closer look at these incredible plants and has some amazing photographs in his blog BunyipCo.

An early start to the wet season

On Christmas Day a small cyclone named Tasha kicked off what is looking like one of the best wet seasons we have had in years.

Monsoonal skies over Cairns

Remnants of a rock concert

Barron River

Barron Falls near Kuranda

(the whistling sound is coming from the cicadas)

A good cover by Vikarious

Found on You Tube: A great cover of Eric Hutchinson's 'Rock and Roll' by local Cairns band Vikarious
Taken at the Fogerty Park Cairns Esplanade.

When Costa came to the Cairns Flexible Learning Centre

This was featured on Costa’s Garden Odyssey (between ads) on SBS earlier this year.
The FLC is located just behind the Cairns School of Distance Education and next door to Trinity Bay High School.
More info HERE.