July 29, 2011

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

After a month in Three Hills we started on the second leg of our "Tour of the World" on Wednesday, July 20. From Calgary we flew via Dallas and Brisbane to Cairns.

Home for 16 hours, Boeing 747-400

After 33 hours of travelling, on Friday, July 22 at 9:30am we were met by friends at the airport and escorted to our new temporary home – Tree Tops Lodge.
This "resort" consists of apartments with one or two bedrooms, bath room a kitchen/living room. All is situated within a park of tropical trees and bushes. Butterflies in all sizes and colours are abundant and as soon as night falls a cricket concert starts lasting the whole night.

Our apartment (bottem right)

View from our living room window

On Monday a two weeks orientation course has started. We hear about organisational things like staff manual, e-mail addresses, and finances; do culture and language training; and talk about security, depression, and stress. After this, Markus will have to do advanced flight training and a course about MAF flying standards.

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