{"id":782,"date":"2026-01-31T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/?p=782"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:25:06","slug":"scuba-trip-cairns-australia-jan-2026-part-1-land-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Scuba Trip, Cairns, Australia – Jan. 2026, Part-1 (Land adventures)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Scuba Live-aboard trip to Great Barrier Reef (GBR) with a group of friends in January 2026. We added a few days of land based activities before spending a week on the Spoilsport (See Part-2<\/a>), operated by Mike Ball Dive Expeditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuranda Village Trip<\/strong>
We took the Kuranda Scenic Railway<\/a> up to the village and then the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway<\/a> back down. Afterwards we went to Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures<\/a>, this one is kind of required on a visit to Queensland, Australia.
(Photo credits go to various trip participants)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tully River Whitewater Rafting<\/strong>
We went down the Tully River with Raging Thunder Adventures<\/a>. Highly recommended!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauly’s Raft:<\/strong> (Amy, Gary, Linnea, Dave)

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The group shots and rafting pics were purchased from the outfitter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rocky’s Raft: (Lisa, Dave, Fred, Uwe)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atherton Tablelands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Scuba Live-aboard trip to Great Barrier Reef (GBR) with a group of friends in January 2026. We added a few days of land based activities before spending a week on the Spoilsport (See Part-2), operated by Mike Ball Dive Expeditions. Kuranda Village TripWe took the Kuranda Scenic Railway up to the village and thenContinue reading “Scuba Trip, Cairns, Australia – Jan. 2026, Part-1 (Land adventures)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260118_000816400-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jRtN-cC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/trip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}