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…
It’s finally here! One of the most anticipated days of the trip! Ringing in the New Year Sydney style. Josh and I were adamant about our spot. We were locked in and ready for the long haul. Actually, I’m not sure if Josh was more adamant about the spot, or about the fact that he…
We all needed a bit of a sleep in this morning. So that’s exactly what we did! It was heavenly. Then we packed up for our beach day. We went to Google for lunch. The Sydney campus is really beautiful! And as always, I wonder how anyone at Google can focus long enough to work….
The train was not running from Sydney to Blacktown for maintenance. So we decided to uber to Sydney Zoo and Featherdale and then pick up the train after that. Featherdale was a big whomp whomp. Except for the fact that Blake won free kangaroo food in his map! His lucky streak continues. Unfortunately, his luck…
Josh, Rusty and I had an early morning drive to Rose bay warf. We ended up being really early for our dive and so we wandered around for a bit. We cheered on a duck diving for fish and in the tree next to us were the most pretty parrots! Josh said their undersides looked…