Arrived in one piece!

So here I am in lovely Cairns, which resembles California to a spooky degree. Folks are real laid-back. My hostel's a 15-minute walk from the lagoon. The weather's gorgeous - low 80's, sunny and dry. Not a lot of time to update ($2 only buys me 20 minutes of Internet, and I'm already down to 9), so here's the lowdown:

• Still getting used to looking the other way before crossing the street.
• Everything sounds sexier if you say it with an accent.
• It's weird not being connected to a cell phone.
• Within the first 5 minutes of the drive into town, I saw: Domino's Pizza, Subway, McDonald's and Mobil. I couldn't decide whether this was cool, or whether I felt like a tool for flying 7,500 miles to go to...America v.2.