We are out in the country and it is fabulous. This morning I woke up and took my laptop to the deck and sat out there and watched the sun rise over the tree tops and listened to the many varieties of birds. There were several colorful species of parrots circling around and the kookaburras were entertaining me with their crazy laugh. I could not here cars, trucks, planes, barking dogs or people only the occasional cow bellow. It was awesome. After breakfast we t...

I must start the blog today with a bit of tragic news. Sometime during the day I dropped our brand new camera and it bounced off a rock and into the ocean. We managed to fish it out and dry it out and amazingly got it working again but there is a crack in the middle of the lens. We have been enjoying this camera so much and bought it just for this trip. We decided to try and use Lesley's camera, while ok, it is not quite the Nikon Coolpix. We have located another...