Category Archives: TRIP

Daintree & Reef Trip in Cairns

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Celebrating our 10th anniversary, went all went on a trip to Cairns. In terms of the outdoor activities that are the point of this journal the rainforests were particularly impressive, and Maggie and myself went to the reef.

The daintree was lovely and quite unique compared to Darwin. Maggie is very into nature right now and she enjoyed it. Eddie liked the walk but mostly the train!

The Great Barrier Reef was fun although the coral was not as good as the outer reef, I think we will need to go next time.

My favourite spot was just a creek on the side of the road where the kids had loads of fun playing and splashing.

Litchfield / Tumbling Waters

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We got into tumbling waters for a two night camping trip. The cold dry was not around, it was quite warm which made swimming nice but going to bed at 8pm difficult. The portable fans went a long way.

The kids liked it and the caravan park was nice. It was a bit noisy both nights until around 11.30pm. The food was decent – Eddie got his bowl of chips. One of the highlights was Eddie coming back from kinder to find the car parked and planting himself in the carseat for “Eddie camping sleep in tents” he was so excited.

We went to Buley Rockholes and another of our favourite picnic spots.

Kakadu Camping Trip

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The first camping trip we have been on up here since the kids were born and it went off very well. Eddie loved the tents (and we knew Maggie would). We stayed at Cooinda and there was a highlight of Eddie playing on the jumping pillow with all the other camp kids.

Saturday we went to Ubirr and Nourlangie. We spend the afternoon in the swimming pool.

Sunday we found Ikomarywa water hole. We went to pine creek but unfortunately the old trains were closed due to lack of volunteers to run it.

Overall a very successful trip.