Rainy visit with my Hubbie

Where to even begin… JB arrived in Brisbane on March 25th to a beautiful sunny day. We enjoyed the sunshine swimming at South Bank and touring the local Milton and Toowong areas. We had a lovely dinner with Jill before we headed north to Cairns the next day. After a two hour flight delay, we finally arrived in rainy Cairns and picked up our Spaceship, aptly named “Quagmire”! The Spaceship was our cool little camper van/means of travel to explore North Queensland. To keep the blog to a minimum size, I must now begin the short recap of the events. Our favorite camp spots were at Bingil Bay and Palm Cove. We visited Coffee Works in the Atherton Tablelands and tasted 21 types of coffee, plus lots of tea, and chocolates, really what could be better! Yum! We caught a glimpse of some amazing views while touring the Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walkway, including a spider almost 6 inches across (that’s 15 cm for your Aussies). The entire trip was sadly filled with lots of rain. We even witnessed first-hand a flash flood in Cape Tribulation that engulfed the only road in or out of the area. We literally watched Cooper Creek rise 1.5 meters in less than one hour! Luckily, no one was injured (although one local almost pushed his luck too far) and we ended up being able to cross back over the creek after waiting for only 3 hours! It was amazing how fast the water came up and then went back down! We spent our most beautiful weather day scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. It was my first time diving and I LOVED it! We visited three different reef sites and all were amazing. JB, the diving expert, was even quoted as saying, "it was one of my top diving days ever". It was an amazing day full of bright sunlight, bright blue ocean water, brightly colored fish, sharks, sea turtles, sting rays, beautiful structured coral, and warm waters. Another of our favorite places was Port Douglas. It was a super cute little beach town with lots of lively night life and an amazing running beach, 4 Mile Beach. It was the perfect beach to run on, flat with hard packed sand. I will dream about that one. We spent JB’s last day back in sunny Brisbane. We had a wonderful time touring around Australia, but we hope for better weather on our next trip. Hope everyone had a wonderful and Happy Easter! I am off to Gladstone this week for some actual work… yeah!