What? Another magnificent day? Surely not, that would make too many in a row... But, it's true. We have genuinely had another magnificent day! It started much earlier than usual this morning. I was up at 6am, trying to make as much noise as possible to rouse everyone else, so we could get away before they shut the highway at Port Douglas for the Ironman Comp. I could tell immediately that the weather had come out to play, because even though the sun wasn't yet u...

You know it's been another good day when your son comes up to his mother and gives her a big hug and says 'thank you for an awesome day'. Jeremy has always had good manners, but this came out of the blue, on the spur of the moment, as we were sitting on the deck of our cruise boat on the way back from the reef. Dylan followed his lead, and we have no doubts that they said it because they meant it, and not because they wanted an icypole... We'd left Port Douglas ...

It's the first of June already? Where did that time go? And why wasn't I told? The weather today was crap!! It started out ok, with greyish skies in the morning, but it didn't rain. We took the opportunity to pack away the annexe while it was dry, because the next couple of days were going to be busy, and we had to travel early Sunday morning. There's not much worse than trying to fold away a wet annexe in a hurry, so we took the opportunity while it was there. ...

Both the boys woke up very excited. This morning, we were going to have 'Breakfast with the Birds' at Wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas. That's where the wildlife park put on a big smorgasboard for breakfast in their huge bird aviary, and we eat breakfast with the birds. Jo and I first discovered this 18 years ago on our honeymoon, and we both knew we would do it again when we returned. The day we arrived, we'd established that it was still running, and had told t...

Tonight we have two very tired young men, and a couple of very tired oldies... We've had a very active couple of days up in the rainforest, with next to no time to stop and recharge our batteries, between the things to do. It's hard this evening, to make myself sit down and complete two days worth of blogs, when all I really want to do, is put my head on the pillow and sleep. But I know that would disappoint my legion of followers, who've had nothing last night,...