AUSTRALIA – DAY 17

AUSTRALIA – DAY 17

SUNDAY 4/4/2010 – CAIRNS >> BRISBANE SYDNEY >>LOS ANGELES >> MILWAUKEE Little Wake Up Call – not the 3:00 am alarm, but an antennaed cockroach in the bathroom. It didn’t want to die. I stepped on it 3 times, covered it with a Kleenex and stepped on...
AUSTRALIA – DAY 16 – Kuranda Rain Forest

AUSTRALIA – DAY 16 – Kuranda Rain Forest

SATURDAY 4/3/2010 – KURANDA RAINFOREST Before leaving for the Kuranda Rainforest, Marcia went to the front desk and asked them to confirm our transfer to the airport the following day. There seemed to be some confusion with the Airport Connections Company again. After...
AUSTRALIA – DAY 15 – Great Barrier Reef

AUSTRALIA – DAY 15 – Great Barrier Reef

FRIDAY 4/2/2010 – GREAT BARRIER REEF The Ocean Spirit Cruise tour met us outside of the Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns at 7:35am for a full day Michaelmas Cay Cruise aboard a five star catamaran. Michaelmas Cay is a beautiful sand reef island, 24 miles off the coast...
AUSTRALIA – DAY 14 – Alice Springs to Cairns

AUSTRALIA – DAY 14 – Alice Springs to Cairns

THURSDAY 4/1/2010 (APRIL FOOL’s DAY) – ALICE SPRINGS >> CAIRNS We paid $20 for a two hour late checkout at the hotel.  We sat by the pool in the morning.  Two birds were vying for our attention, making noise, fanning their tails, and staging a cockfight.  We...
AUSTRALIA – DAY 13 – Uluru and Kata Tjuta

AUSTRALIA – DAY 13 – Uluru and Kata Tjuta

WEDNESDAY 3/31/2010 – ULURU (Ayers Rock) & KATA TJUTA (the Olgas) Glen, our Discovery Eco Tours guide, picked us up at the Voyages Desert Gardens Hotel at 5:45 am to take us to see the sunrise at Uluru.  Marcia misheard his name and called him Clay for the first...