When we were in Cairns initially we walked past the gallery and saw that the Ned Kelly series was on exhibition. You couldn't walk in, you had to book a time slot and none were available while we were there so we booked a time slot for our last day.
The two of us are notorious for wandering around galleries and chuckling at art. And this was bigal viewing Nolan's Ned Kelly series. Ned wasn't his thing. I won't post what he found here but while we were sat at the lounge later in the afternoon he showed me a number of copies painted by five year olds that he though were better.
I'll admit that I eventually struggled. Possibly due to the pretentious commentary from Nolan that accompanied each painting. Oh well, it was free...
we called into Wolf Lane to purchase out bottle of Davidson plum gin
we dropped the car off and unexpectedly were told a cab had just been called to take us to the airport. Big tick to Jucy!
The airport was super quiet as was the lounge. As QF has advised, the food offerings would be limited. I think I got the same sandwiches after my colonoscopy a few weeks before the trip. Small sangers, jelly trifle, a tomato soup with crusty bread. Bar was open. They wandered round with trays of chocolate mousse and carrot cake.
Everyone socially distance quite well down at the gate but once the flight was called it went out the window. Very few of us stood 1.5, away from each other in the queue but what did that really matter once you got on the plane? We masked up (not sure why bigal's is under his chin?), as did nearly everyone else.
The food offered was a square of cake and a bottle of water
Baggage collection at BNE was an absolute joke. Three flights all using the same carousel and people literally crammed around it. We kept our masks on, stood back, and made a dash into the turmoil when we saw our bags.
We had a most unexpectedly great holiday. We'll be back to north Qld again, and are pretty sure we'll go back to PD next time and most likely stay at the Ramada. With the free bikes and the local shuttle why wouldn't we?
Fingers crossed the border between Qld and South Australia are open for our trip to Kangaroo Island in early October.