Because our living situation was quite rustic, we decided to class it up a bit the next day and have a champagne brekkie in the Bungalow Bay animal sanctuary. This was our first true Australian breakfast and it was awesome…not to mention an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord buffet. One thing we noticed is that Australians loved breakfast. Every town that we've gone through, we've found many restaurants that serve brekkie all day long. Some of the items that are dif...

We passed our first real test of logistics today. We had a lengthy drive from Cairns to find the Breakwater Terminal in Townsville where we took the 20-minute ferry ride over to Magnetic Island. We had to coordinate the ferry schedule with the bus schedule in order to get to our hostel. It actually wasn't too difficult since Anne and I work very well together as a team. I do the driving; Anne knows how to figure out schedules. We discovered that Magnetic Island...