Cairns

We arrived in Cairns after an early morning stop and 3 hour wait in Darwin, where we got stopped at customs. All was fine for me, but they asked us to wait around to check something to do with Colin. We got a bit worried when the lady they spoke to in front of us was held back for having a suspended drug sentence and I asked Colin if there's anything he wanted to tell me before we got to the friendly customs lady. It turned out that Colin hadn't put his middle name for his visa and they had trouble finding him on the system.
Next we had a very quick stopover in a random place called Gove. The weather was lovely in Darwin and Gove, so we were slightly disappointed when we saw the rain in Cairns. Luckily it rained on and off, so we got to explore the city a bit. Cairns is a lot smaller than we thought and there wasn't too much to do there and it was also a lot quieter than we expected, but we heard this was partly due to the fact that loads of people left to get away from cyclone Yasi, which missed Cairns in the end.
After months on buses and staying in hostels in South East Asia we decided to try something different, so we've decided to hire a campervan to drive down the east coast. The vans are called spaceships and our particular one is named Lex Luther (Superman was off saving the day or something like that). Here's a photo of our home for the next month or so.