Ooh Sunday, last full day in Cairns and the chance to round it off at Cairns Pride Fair at the botanical gardens. Cue lots of blurred pictures of fading flowers and prickly things, but more of the lesbians later.

Caught the bus to the gardens, nearly fell off when he said it was $10 to ride 2km. Even stagecoach don’t charge that much! Turns out that was a day return for two.

The gay thing was at an arts centre called the tanks (converted old concrete water storage tanks that look like those gas things we have at home, except they don’t go up and down and they are made of concrete) anyway the tanks are part of the botanic gardens.

Now I’m quite fond of gays, but on which page of the manual does it say “you will only play dance music and it must be at full blast at all times” further “all songs must be speeded up versions of popular tunes by lady singers” and rule three obviously states “bass” now had this been some party thing with lots of orange boys in crop tops with stupid hair and turned up noses (we would have been in Manchester) it may well have been appropriate but this was a kind of summer fete full of older gay men sat at condom and 2nd hand book stalls and ladies being bitter hanging around the art exhibition feeling left out so it was completely wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. All afternoon in the adjacent, beautiful Botanic Gardens you could hear frogs and crickets and birds and BASS! and Adele on helium setting fire to the rain. So we didn’t spend long in the pride fair, not once we got to the mainstage tank and there was a lesbian ukulele player about to start.

So we popped next door and spent the afternoon taking close ups of every flowery thing we could find after having lunch in the cafe – $13 for a tuna sandwich! It should have come with salad but as that already had peppers in it I could just have the sarny. Great. nelly found potatoes so was happy especially once they brought the right order out.

But we loved the gardens and the setting and it’s well worth a few hours of anyone’s time.

Evening meal was back to the Courthouse restaurant we were at the other night, I had pizza and Neil had Dino with risotto. Thats a prawn thing which you could have with spaghetti, fetucini or risotto. You could also have bolognese also with pasta or risotto. Euw!

Back to pack, Uluru in the morning.