PIctures

If you are looking for more photos of my trip you will have to check out the travelingbonbon.blogpspot.com site.

I should have noted that in the last posting I made saying this blog has finally come to an end. :(

As I took 2000+ photos I am still working on getting the final ones up there, but there is a good selection to look at while I continue to work away at the remaining umpteen plus. :)

Time To Return To The Traveling Bonbon Blog

Since the trip is over so are the posts. I hope you all enjoyed them while they lasted even though they were far and few between.

If you want to keep reading about the other interesting and not so interesting things going on in my life head back on over to:
travelingbonbon.blogspot.com

The Road Trip Is Over

Okay so with over 6000K logged on George the road trip has come to an end. Don't get too upset for us though. We are just turning George in for a boat for a few days. And since George didn't kill us or cause us to kill each other (thus far) I think we are in the clear (but keep your fingers crossed just the same). ;) ;) haha just kidding actually the trip has gone by so quickly. I really think it is because we were always on the move.

Anyway, in just a mere 6 hours we will be stepping onto the Nimrod for a week of diving. Morning, noon and night will be spent in the water looking for the big ones. Since I haven't seen anything that big yet face to face I really have no idea how I am going to react when I do.

Hope everyone is well at home :)

6000K+

George has successfully taken us over the 6000 kilometer mark today. We arrived in Port Douglas just a little while ago to stop at an info booth on our way to Cape Tribulation.

Port Douglas was the home town for a my Aunt and Uncle and their two daughters some years back and boy would they be surprised to see what it has turned into these days. My phrase of choice would be "The Rodeo Drive of Australia". Every five feet there is either a newer bigger resort or bigger and I would hope better country club.

This has been a busy past 7 days. We have gone to the movies (The Heartbreak Kid - Hysterical Movie that I would love to watch again in the states because what they call Mature a.k.a. PG-13 would definitely be considered 'X' rated at home), visited the aquarium in Townsville, the Queensland Museum, saw the 'Deep Sea' Imax movie, had an adventure with Ocean Rafting (speed boat, snorkeling and beaching it on Whitehead beach in the Whitsundays) and just yesterday we went white water rafting down the Tully river. With hopes we will be hoping on the Skyline today or tomorrow to get a birds eye view of the Daintree Rain Forest.

All in all I am loving it! If I could I would (and I don't think Corrigan would make any arguments about it either) trade in the humidity of the last two days. It has been utterly unbearable to sleep at night. Just as you get ready for bed and think "ah it's not too bad today" you get awoken at midnight or 2 am to the literal "heat of the night". If the book is right though the rain forest will be "naturally cool" and we can finally get a good night sleep. Wish us luck!!!

Alive And Well

And kicking back in the Whitsundays, Australia.

Sorry for not keeping this updated as that was my original intent. When I am back in Melbourne at the end of the month I will do my best to recap the trip, but for now it is off for a day of adventure. We are taking a boat adventure off the coast and onto the very southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. Doing a little snorkeling and well just enjoying the sunshine a bit before the rain sets in this afternoon. It is the beginning of Wet Season here and well if yesterday was any indication of what today will bring I wish I had brought my rainproof clothing!

Tata for now

Try And Keep Up Will Ya?

Haha! Sorry that the words have been few and far between, but there is either no connection or no time to do so. I am hard at work taking pictures, navigating and making sure Corrigan doesn't drive us off the road. ;) Besides what else would you do with that extra 5 minutes at work if I didn't offer you the opportunity to keep checking in to see if there is something new?

Since I have been bad at the whole documentation process I thought I would show you our travels so far. I whole heartily admit that I have plagiarized my maps and have to thank Corrigan for doing the hard work. Without further ado here is the trip in a matter of two snapshots





I know there have been no pics since November 9th, but now that I finally have a great connection Flickr isn't letting me upload anything. Hopefully later tonight. You may actually want to tell me to stop posting them when you see how many are to come!

Livin' The Life of An Ausralian

Okay kids it has been awhile and I apologize, but what can I say I am on vacation and sitting in a cafe and absolutely loving it. It is funny though because I got here on what the 5th of November and it has taken me over a week to actually realize a few things:
1) that I am really here
2) that it is not a weekend get-a-way
3) that I still have a long ways to go before I have to come home

I believe I last left off letting you know that I was going to be going on tour of the wineries and indeed I did. One of Lano's friends rented a van for 10 of us and we headed on out to visit 5 wineries. It was great! Red wines, white wines and even the (not so favored by most) desert wines. You got to figure I would be the one that doesn't actually by any wine from the place we go and have our tastings from, but rather the restaurant we had lunch at. To my defense we did have lunch at a brewery/winery. :)

So that was last Saturday. Last Sunday was the last day we had at Lano's before we picked up the good ole wicked camper. So what were we to do? We definitely had a long day on Saturday with the winery tours and a night out meeting up with another of Lano's friends. Ah we're on vacation so yes, let's take a three hour drive to the Prom! Okay so I wasn't wearing a sequence strappy dress or anything, but I did have on a strappy tank (it's hot down here!). The Prom is known as Wilson's Prom and is a National Park in Australia. It is actually the southern most tip of Australia and had we not gone I would not have seen one of the most beautiful beaches ever. The first was nothing in comparison and would have actually been like any beach in the US, but it was the second beach that we hiked to that was absolutely BEAUTIFUL! If I had access to uploading a photo right now I would...wait let me check....nope sorry

The day couldn't have been better...cloudless and just gorgeous. That is actually what the weather pretty much has been the entire time we have been here. Sunny, cloudless and averaging 70+ to 90 degrees with no humidity (any curly haired girls dream!).

Monday morning it was time to pack up and get ready to pick up what we now refer to as "George" our lovely 'Wicked' camper van. The funniest part about picking George up is that I signed up for an automatic. Little would I know that when we went to pick up our home for the next 6 or 7 weeks that it would not be an automatic b/c they didn't have any. Don't worry dad, no more broken side mirrors just yet (just kidding) ;) That's only b/c I haven't learned yet. hee hee My time will come though, and I gotta give Corrigan a bunch of credit b/c he has been doing all the driving. Lano comes on Saturday so let's just say I have a small little plan to devise being a passenger for a little while longer - mwooo ha ha ha!

So far George has provided us two amazing sunsets, sorry can't report on the sunrises yet b/c I keep sleeping through them. I can tell you that the first sunset was next to a riverbank in Echuca (pronounced u-choo-ka and not u-kook-a) followed by our first night sleeping under an abandoned underpass and the second from the top of a lookout point in Gundugai. We have yet to decide where we are sleeping tonight, but we are in hopes that it has a shower ;) we stink! haha

I tried to get some pics up but it doesn't appear it will be possible...sorry...hopefully in the next town.

toodles for now