Tours & Daytrips

Uluru and Kata Tjuta

Uluru & Kata Tjuta – or, you better get a glass of wine before sitting down, because this one’s loooooong

The flight down over the desert alone was worth the ticket. In some weird way it reminds me of the Reef, in a strange, upside down sort of way. You know when you take a photo and add the “negative” filter over it, so all the colours are inverted? Exactly the same here. Instead of …

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Beach heaven - The Reef and Airlie Beach

Hanging out in Paradise…or, The Great Barrier Reef & Whitehaven Beach

The Reef Ok – disclaimer right off the bat: I didn’t get an underwater digital camera and so I don’t have images of the reef yet. I did have disposable underwater cameras, but I’m not getting those pictures until mom’s back in Canada and develops them and sends them over to be posted. Instead, let …

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Rainforest and Waterfall Tours, and Great Barrier Reef

Waterfalls & Rainforests…Or, The Time I Learned About Paralysis Ticks

One thing is for sure: there is no shortage of things to do or tours to take around here. There’s a reason for so many travel agencies. This was our first: a tour of three waterfalls and rainforest around Cairns (the Atherton Tablelands to be exact) – or at least, the bits that the farmers …

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