If you've just wandered in here and have no idea what you're looking at, you should probably wander back the way you came. Remember when people said that the web allowed everyone to inflict their vacation photos onto the rest of the world? Well, that would be this.
If you're still here, I'm going to assume you know us, or at least one of us, and want to learn more about the trip we took to Australia between April 17th and April 29th of 2001. If that's the case, you're in the right place.
Before you dive in to the travelogue and pictures (I warned you it was vacation photos - I'm not kidding) you might want to read the back story on why we chose Australia.
In fact, even if you don't want to - you should - the whole trip will make more sense once you do.
Now, then, on to the monotonuous narrative
sprinkled with pictures only the photographer could love.
| Day 1 | LA to Sydney... |
| Day 2 | ...by way of Brisbane, the whole of Sydney on foot |
| Day 3 | Taronga Zoo, Manley, Ice Cream #1 |
| Day 4 | more of Sydney on foot - Agents Sighted, Ice Cream #2 |
| Day 5 | Aussie rules football, Sydney to Brisbane, driving on the wrong side of the road |
| Day 6 | Tiger encounter - a life dream made real, not to mention kangaroos and koalas |
| Day 7 | Qulting down-under, Ice Cream #3, Ice Cream #4 |
| Day 8 | Brisbane to Cairns, obnoxious airline employees, Ice Cream #5 |
| Day 9 | Train to Kuranda, Dog-sized spiders, Ice Cream #6, Tropical Butterflies, Birds eating out of our hands, Licked by a bat (a cat? no a bat), Sky Rail over and in the rain forest. |
| Day 10 | Outer Barrier Reef snorkeling - total sensory overload |
| Day 11 | Wanna buy a hat?, Ice Cream #7 |
| Day 12 | Cairns to LA by way of Sydney |
And after all that, if you want more, you should consider raiding the piggy bank and going yourself - no amount of story telling or picture sharing can compare with it.
Hope you enjoyed it - we sure did. As a former co-worker of mine put it - it was a Visa commercial.
Airfair and accomidations: $1599/person
Meals: ...
Souviners: ...
Crossing #1 off the list of life dreams:
priceless
Cheers.
...Dan and Dawnise