My mom and sister got into Brisbane on Tuesday last week. Their visit so far has been kind of a whirlwind adventure because Ashley has a lot of school work and Jordan and I are both finishing up classes. We went to Cairns on Thursday and got back this Tuesday. So far, that's pretty much all we've done with them. This weekend we'll be going to Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, the Australia Zoo, perhaps the Koala Sanctuary, and a few other things around Brisbane.
We spent our first full day in Cairns settling in and getting our reef trip set up. The following day we headed out really early to do three dives on the reef. The weather conditions were not ideal, so we only got to dive in one spot, but it was spectacular, nonetheless! I saw a blue-spotted sting ray, a starfish, lots of Nemos!, a loggerhead sea turtle, and lots and lots of amazing fish and coral! I'm working on posting the pictures right now. A lot of them turned out really well. I'm quite pleased with the quality of the camera we rented. The next couple days in Cairns were spent driving around North Queensland a little bit and seeing some of cool stuff around there. We went around some of the rain forest areas and a few cool markets and a coffee plantation. We also made it down to Josephine Falls where there is a natural water slide. The slide was really fun, but the water was quite cold. Not as cold as the water at Springbrook, though.
Overall, we had a really good time in Cairns and the diving made the trip more than worth it! The reef pictures are up now and the others will follow shortly. More about the coming weekend after Mom and Ashley are headed back to the states.
On a side note, I leave here on November 3rd. It's coming so fast and I'm trying to figure out what happened to my time here in Australia!
Thanks for reading. I'll see all of you quite soon!
Nicole
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