June 29th, 2019 Today our first stop was Chinatown. I realized we actually were not in Chinatown last night, just an area that resembled it. There is a very big temple here called the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. We walked around the outside and took photos, but we did not go in. I couldn’t dress…
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Day 142 – Singapore
June 28th, 2019 We had to get up in the middle of the night to pack and be downstairs at the airport shuttle by 3:30am for our early 6am flight to Singapore. Everything went smoothly and it was just over 4 hours to get there from Darwin. Singapore is supposed to have one of the…
Days 140-141- Darwin & Final Thoughts Australia
June 26th-27th, 2019 We had a very relaxed couple of days in Darwin and it was a nice way to end our journey in Australia. We didn’t do anymore ‘touring’ and just stuck around downtown. We went for a sunrise jog and watched the sunset from Mindil Beach. I liked our hostel with a pool…
Day 139 – Darwin, Australia
June 25th, 2019 Today was a travel day for us. We said goodbye to our rental car which served us well as a car and a home on Australia’s East Coast. I was so thankful we covered all those miles without any incidents. Even a door ding or a chipped window would have been crappy…
Day 138 – Cairns, Australia
June 24th, 2019 This was our last day in Cairns. Tomorrow we return our rental car and fly to Darwin, a city in Australia’s Northern Territory. We wanted a day to rest and ended up doing a self-guided drive and tour through some of the Daintree Rainforest just outside of Cairns. We went to a…
Day 137 – Great Barrier Reef
June 23rd, 2019 Our day started super early to prepare for our 6:30am sunrise dive. All night my ears were kind of plugged and crackly, so I was really nervous about being able to complete this ‘deep dive’. To obtain the advanced certification we signed up for, I would have to at least get past…
Day 136 – Great Barrier Reef
June 22nd, 2019 I was so excited and nervous about our dive trip I barely slept the night before (not that we ever slept that good in the car anyway). I was nervous that I would forget something or not know what to do since we are new divers, and this will be our first…
Day 135 – Cairns, Australia
June 21st, 2019 Today, we drove the last 45 minutes or so and finally arrived in Cairns! That was a lot of ground we covered coming from Sydney (over 1500 miles). Brendan drove practically all of it since I only drove for a short time. We got to town and figured we would check out…
Day 134 – East Coast Travel, Australia
June 20th, 2019 When we got up this morning, I thought our diving adventure began tomorrow in Cairns. This meant we had a pretty full day of driving to get to Cairns by tonight. We decided to drive about four hours to Mission Beach and thought we would check out the beach and have lunch. …
Day 133 – Whitsunday Island, Australia
June 19th, 2019 Happy Birthday Bro! Today we had our day excursion through the Whitsunday islands (and in case anyone is wondering, I did not experience any type of runners high on my jog this morning so it’s back to the usual drudgery of that routine). We went to the marina and got our tickets…