Category: Australia

Day 17- travel to Sydney- Monday November 5th

November 5, 2018

A noontime flight just begged for an early morning tour. So, up at 5, out of the hotel by 6:45 and up to a crocodile 🐊 sanctuary and farm. By now, all these people, many of them old, are coughing and hacking like a TB ward in the 1950’s. But, we

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Day 16- Sunday November 4-Kuranda

November 4, 2018

After a lovely night at the night market with our BF’s for this trip, we arose early to take a gondola 🚠 up to the rain forest. it was a lovely ride with a little walk through some rain forest before we reached the top. Once at the top, in

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Day 15 – Saturday November 3rd- the Great Barrier Reef

November 3, 2018

Checked in late last night. Great breakfast buffet, they had so many varieties of food here in Carins, but Leslie said not to order the porridge as they don’t warm up the milk/ water well and it comes out lousy. Shortly after Leslie’s lousy porridge little miss train wreck from

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Day 14- November 2nd- Darwin to Cairns

November 2, 2018

Much of today was spent meandering back to Darwin to catch a late flight to Cairns- or Northern Queensland as Anya, our tour guide called it. Again, the full flight was boarded in 13 minutes with no announcement in the airport. Just amazing how everyone is expected to be there

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Happy Halloween 🎃 Day 12. Off to Kakadu

October 30, 2018

After a leisurely Halloween morning in Darwin, we are off to Kakadu, where the high today is forecasted to be 110. It’s a very balmy 90 now at 10 am on Wednesday. We have seen a bunch of indigenous people, who they call aboriginal. We cannot photograph them as they

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