Even though we have been home for over a week, I haven't finished our trip details. On Tuesday July 13th, we flew from Cairns back to Sydney. We stayed in Sydney for two more days and spent some time walking around the Botanical Gardens which is located near the Opera House. We saw a prehistoric tree. The Wollemi Pine was found not too long ago and was thought to be extinct. We also saw MORE bats. We watched them hanging from the trees for a long time. But, the h...

Still trying to catch up with the last few days of our blog. We are back and we are glad to see our family, friends and pets but, it is hard to come back to South Florida. It was very different where we were. We went back to the Daintree Rain Forest and went to a beach where the rain forest and Great Barrier Reef actually meet in the closest spot. It was low tide and we could see the exposed reef and walked on the coral rocks. The combination of a tropical rai...

G'Day Mates! So sorry for the delays...the internet situation has been too slow to download photos. We have arrived back in the United States tonight. It took us 32 hours to get home and the majority of it was spent in LA waiting for flight and then of course at the MIA airport, we had to wait an hour and a half for baggage, then 30 minutes more in the parking garage to get out, then an extra 30 minutes of construction work on I-95 to get home! Culture Shock! S...

Sorry for delay, we have had the slowest internet service! After this we still have a few days to catch up on. This past Friday, July 9, 2010 was an incredible experience! We got to fly by Helicopter to the Great Barrier Reef. We flew there and back. We went to the tiniest sand island. (look at photos). The island was the size of maybe two houses. It was just us! We went out to snorkel and I was crying in my mask! I had a Zen like moment just felt like I was in ...

Hi, Today we had another beautiful day! We did what is known as the Waterfall Circuit. We drove through the Atherton Tableland Area and spent the day stopping in quaint little towns that are in the middle of rainforests and swimming in giant waterfalls. Our first stop in the morning was in a town named Mareeba. The shop serves locally grown coffee and has a cute gift shop. We then stopped in a town named Yungaburra and had a delicious lunch and had a hard time ...