The Cairns Hides Hotel in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The photographer is standing on Lake Street looking south west. The hotel is on the left side of the image in the foreground. Cars and vans are parked along Shields Street in the middle of the image. The shop front on the western side of the street extend into the middle ground. The Mount Peter mountain range is in the far background. This is Slide 32 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Watchkeeping Officer for the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) owned by Commercial Cable Company of London from 26 November 1975 to 24 April 1976. This series consists of 33 surviving slides.