The flight from Uluru to Cairns takes only about 2 hours and 30 minutes or so. Qantas, probably the best airline I’ve ever flown, served us a small lunch, in my case a beef sandwich.
When we arrived in Cairns, it was like going from one extreme to the other. Uluru was 104F, and very dry. In Cairns, it was 92F “but feels like 98F”, and there were heavy clouds strongly suggesting that rain was imminent.
This was the tropics, and the rainy season at that. Our first sight of Cairns was nothing like the above photo, but we were still to experience some nice sunny spells, interspersed with spells of significant rain.
We took a bus directly to the hotel.
