I do NOT know where the time goes but it's the end of August. Somehow life and travel of late has seemed even more leisurely and peaceful than before and that's saying something for us two! Much more relaxed and we'll need to invest in EKG equipment.Our final time with Thomas was a night in the Crystal Creek National Park. A little swim in the creek, cold showers, some guitar playing and singing (yikes!) at night, lots of good food and drink. We were sad to part ...

We've had quite a few adventures since our last blog update. On our way south to meet up with Thomas we spent a night in a deserted (and run down...) National Park campground. The sun had hardly gone down when we head "funny" noises outside our van. "Spotlighting" (as the Australians like to call "shining a flashlight into a poor nocturnal animals eyes") showed two as of yet unidentified critters all over our campsite. At some point ...

Well, we really don't have much new and exciting. We finally found a place to get the pictures and video off our our phone (which is the emergency/back-up when we can't take the camera) so there are some from way back but they were too much fun not to share. The quality is not very good but the surfer that gets onto her board right as the beach begins is my beautiful and talented wife - Pam Anderson eat your heart out! Great fun. That was back in the good days of...

We've worked our way south, slowly, and had quite a few interesting "encounters". This area here is called "The Wet Tropics" and there is rainforest everywhere. We both figured hiking (aka bushwalking) was in order and set out on a rainforest walk. No one had warned us of the vicious plants and off we went in the fast pace we developed during hours of walking into work in Calgary. All I heard was a scream and turning around I see Jason with a ...

I had very low expectations about what the Great Barrier Reef would be like. In fact I hadn't really even thought about it much at all. I knew we would do a tour out to the reef but that was as far as I had thought with regards to this particular wonder of the world. I think they call the Houston Astrodome is a wonder of the world too but I don't think much about it either. We've also been to a few neat places and seen some pretty sweet reef and fish life already...