Day 290: Fifteen Hours Door-to-Door Travel Day — Arrive in Tasmania!
Australia is…huge. And today our plan was to go from top to bottom: Far North Queensland to Hobart, Tasmania. It was about a 15-hour trip door to door: 4-hour drive...
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Day 289: Day Trip into Cooktown — Dinner at Mungumby
[Posting from rural Tasmania – pics need to get added later when wifi better]. Today we made new friends at breakfast: Heike and Axel, a German couple who’ve lived in...
Day 287: Farewell to Botanical Ark + Gaia — A Rainforest 4×4 Ride Up the Coast — Lion’s Den Pub
[Internet continues to be bad, pics limited] After a final stick-throwing sesh with Gaia, we had to say farewell to the Botanical Ark. Pulling the kids away from this adorable...
Day 286: The Great Barrier Reef!!
We were up and out early this morning to catch our snorkeling boat out of Port Douglas — we were going to spend the day on the Great Barrier Reef!...
Day 285: Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures — G’Day Shannon!
We had another leisurely morning and then did school on the porch. We made PBJs for the road then headed south to Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures. Our travel agent organized this...
Day 283: A Rainforest Walk with Alan — An Afternoon of Free Play in the Jungle
[Internet super slow – pics later] Ahhh, this place is just so cool. We loved getting up and making our own coffee and breakfast in an open air kitchen and...