It’s Sunday and opening day for the Australian Open! I was still not feeling 100% from the stupid frustrating cold and cough. Booo. We headed out about 10am for the walk to Melbourne Park. It was cloudy and forecast to rain and so the crowds stayed away. We walked right in and to our first…
Bye Bye Cains! The weather here is heavenly! Almost no humidity and much, much cooler temps. I felt myself coming alive again! We landed in Melbourne, picked up our rental mini van, and hit the Great Ocean Road. It’s such a scenic drive. Also, it’s such a tight and curvy road. (The sign made us so…
Today we were supposed to be waterfall chasing day in the Atherton Tablelands. There are like 10 waterfalls within an hour of each other. Some are just 1/4-1/2 mile off the road, and one we had planned a big hike. (Side note—I drove! On the left! Go me! Also….I cannot believe how pretty the tablelands…
We woke up to pouring rain. But the temperature outside was still nice, so we decided to keep our plans to go to Daintree Rainforest. We stopped to collect shells at 4 Mile beach in Fort Douglas. The water is home to salt water crocodiles, so no swimming or wading here. Josh and Rusty and…
This was not our favorite day. We were still tired, (Blake just wanted to stay home and chill) and maybe a little “wowed” out. Because we rode a gondola over a beautiful rainforest and we were like, “meh.” I think we would have enjoyed it much more at a different time. It was sprinkling rain,…
Dream. Come. True. What an EPIC experience. We woke up early and got to dive shop about 6:30am. We grabbed equipment, signed forms, and drove to the boat. We had a quick breakfast while we went over all the specifics for the trip. Then we were off! It was about a 2.5 hour boat ride…