This weekend we decided to head out to the Monarto Zoo. This is where the Adelaide Zoo keeps all of its large animals including Giraffes, Lions, Cheetahs, Rhinos, Antelopes, hyenas, and many more. It is about 1 hour outside of Adelaide and is great as the animals have a lot of room to roam. We took Curtis Alderman along with us and he and Layla had a great time running around the zoo and riding the bus. After Monarto it was off to Hahndorf and Woodside to see t...

Due to the fact that Australians don't celebrate Halloween we decided to do something scary on our own this weekend: Shark Cage Diving! We left Friday morning with the tent on the car and drove the 7 hours to Port Lincoln at the bottom of the Eyre Peninsula to go cage diving bright and early Saturday Morning. The taxi picked us up at 6:20 am and took us to the marina to board our Cage Diving boat, the Calypso 2. It was a very rough ride out to the Neptune Islan...

Today was fairly uneventful. We got up and packed up the tent, had breakfast, and were on our way through the interior of New South Wales. It is definitely more populated here than in the outback of NSW and there are fewer goats! We stopped on the side of the road, just outside Forbes to witness an amazing moon rise and sunset. Little did we know that the amazing moon rise would turn in to a lunar eclipse that provided us some entertainment at the campsite. Tomor...

It was an early morning: up at 6:00 to get the van packed up and head to the rental place, then the airport to fly back to Brisbane. Everything went as planned and we were on our plane on time, headed South again. After getting to Brisbane it was a short, yet costly taxi ride to get back to Britz to see if anyone had stolen our car. Unfortunately, it was still there when we arrived. We got back in the car, loaded the tent on top and were on our way, getting lost ...

Today was a great day! We got up and packed up for our drive through Cairns to Port Douglas, which would take about 3 hours...a short drive! We stopped at Innisfail, QLD so Leanne could do a 3 minute happy dance in the parking lot of a gas station. She was finally done her course for her masters and wouldn't be taking another one until the new year! We drove through Cairns and up to Port Douglas. We were instantly amazed at how beautiful the beach was along the...