G'day

Hi All,

My apologies for not getting up a blog sooner and my apologies in advance for this being on the short side. I have been writing almost everyday, though, in a little notebook I take everywhere with me and will get to posting those soon. So far we have been camping for two nights in Kakadu and Litchfield National parks and seen our share of wallabees and swam in three waterfall pools. We have also seen Aboriginal art and crocodiles in their natural environs. So stay tuned.

We are in Cairns today. The strangest thing happened today. Some guy walked off with my bag at the luggage carousel. When his suitcase was the only one left, it was obvious by how similar the bags looked, that he had made a mistake. Thank God for Quantas' policy of getting passenger's contact details. Unfortunately, the guy did not realise his mistake until getting to someone's house 2-3 hours away from the airport. I ended up getting my bad at 5 pm after an 10.30 am arrival. I was really worried that my diving gear would walk off, but all was intact. I am now going to put some obnoxious ribbon or tag on it.

Tomorrow we are off for two nights to the Daintree Rainforest to stay in a hotel at the Cape Tribulation beach. We plan to walk in the water and do some snorkelling on Day 2 after taking a tour through the rainforest on Day 1. We may also do a tree line adventure with a zip line from as much as 60 meters above the ground or we may just relax on the beach.

We've picked up a bit of a stomach bug that is working it's way out today so we are headed to get Chinese take away and eat it in our apartment style room while we wait do laundry.

Cairns is smaller than we expected, but very tropical looking...think Hawaii. It's a dramatic difference from Darwin...think a tropical Milwaukee, WI a bit like Crocodile Dundee. Well, more later...my time is running out at the internet cafe.