After coming back from Cairns, I had a lot of photos, small memories and little moments that I wanted to keep somewhere. Instead of making a normal photo album or travel blog, I thought it would be more fun to turn the whole trip into an interactive website.
The idea was simple: I wanted the page to feel a little like travelling through the trip again.
So I started building each day as its own part of the story, using the photos as the main focus. From there, I gradually added maps, small animations, ambient sounds, wildlife discoveries and other details that matched what happened during the trip.
Some of my favourite parts are actually the small things rather than the big visual effects. A bird that appears as a little discovery, the sounds of the rainforest or ocean, a moving plane on the route, or a small note about something I noticed while travelling all help make the journal feel more personal.
I also used the project as an excuse to experiment with web design. I wanted it to feel somewhere between a travel diary, a scrapbook and an interactive story rather than a conventional tourism website.
Because this was a personal project, I could keep changing things whenever I had another idea. That freedom made it a fun way to try out different approaches to animation, responsive design, photography, sound and visual storytelling without having to fit everything into a standard website structure.
The result is Cairns ’26, an interactive journal of the trip.
View the Cairns Travel Journal →
I’ve added this self-initiated Concept Project to my Selected Work. It represents the smaller ideas and creative experiments I build simply because I want to see whether they work.