Browsing Tag: Australia

Cape Tribulation & Daintree Rainforest

The last excursion of our trip was to the rainforest. It was a full day excursion with Down Under Tours, and we were picked up bright and early from our hotel in a 4-wheel drive bus. We headed up to the Port Douglas area again and made our first stop of the day at the Mossman […]

Snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef

The snorkeling excursion to the Great Barrier Reef was one that both Tim and I were looking forward to on this trip. Tim has always said that one of his life goals was to see the Reef before it gets extremely damaged or destroyed (because of human or environmental threats). The excursion was through Quicksilver, […]

Cairns, Australia

So this post is going to be on the short side because didn’t actually spend a whole lot of time in the actual city of Cairns (pronounced “cans”). We left Sydney bright and early and flew to Cairns in northern Queensland. It was the last city of our trip before heading back to the U.S. […]

Sydney Opera House

Included in our trip was a tour of the Sydney Opera House. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect on the hour-long tour, and how it would be possible to cover the entire building in just an hour. Well, we didn’t get to see the entire building, but did see all of the “highlights.” The […]

Sydney, Australia

Though we were sad to leave Queenstown, we were both really excited to see Sydney. What we weren’t excited about, was how we only had 1.5 days there. There’s so much we weren’t able to see and do because of our short time in the city. However, we both feel like we literally could not […]