Our World Wide Adventures: March 2005

Our Whitsundays restored Japanese Pearling boat - 3 days and 3 nights

Possums on Magnetic Island

The wild cassowaries that we came across on our walk in Mission Beach

Daintree with Wendy and Darryl, when he wouldn't get out of the car because of the cassowary birds

Port Douglas beach after the Cyclone

The smallest bar in Australia

Northern Territory - Australia

We then took a flight to Darwin on the 25th of Feb., and have just finished a 9 day tour (broken up into 3 separate tours and some different people) of all of the NT. We camped mostly in permanent tents, but one night in a swag, (I was so exhausted from all the traveling - bus rides, treking and early mornings, that I couldn't stay awake to appreciate the stars), staying in Kakadu National Park, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon. The heat in Darwin was terrible, but the place itself had a really nice feel, so it would be good to see what it is like in the dry season. Currently we are traveling in the wet season, which means rain most days (more so in the north) and amazing electrical storms. There was also an earthquake (7.2 on the scale). We didn't feel it in the National Park, but Darwin did. The weather down in Alice Springs in surprisingly bearable.Tomorrow we take a two night, three day bus from Alice Springs to Cairns, (really over long bus journeys now, but because of this distance, and a lot on unsealed roads, the rumour is that the coach is kitted out for max. comfort and even has plasma screens to watch movies. But we've done it to see some remotes areas of Australia, and visit some Aborginal communities, that we would have otherwise not had the opportunity to). In Cairns we will spent some time with my bestest friend Wendy and her partner who are flying up for 4 nights. We will then have 7 weeks on the east coast before we fly from Sydney to NZ.