Last Day In Australia

Today is our last day in Australia. We are all packed and ready to head to the airport tomorrow morning and be there by about 7:10am. I have no idea when we are actually leaving but sometime after we get there. Have filled in all the customs forms. We had to unload one of our suitcases and it was the one with all our clothes in it so we have a backpack to live out of until the end of the month. We went swimming today with malachi he loves the water. I (candy) am so excited about going to PNG tomorrow. It's a whole new adventure.

A Day Sightseeing

We decided to venture out yesterday. We left in the morning and travelled south of cairns. We first visited Barron Falls it was a walk down to the fall but a very pretty one. The train line run down beside the waterfalls. There weren’t oversized or anything, but they were big enough. On the track we found a huge ants nest built into the tree it was very fascinating i have never seen anything like it we took a photo. Some one had dropped their camera over the boardwalk and it was a fare distance down lying among the rocks and there were a couple of guys heading down the embankment to rescue this camera which had fallen amongst rocks. They were very lucky that it didn’t smash when hitting the rocks. We made it back to the car and headed on our way. The town where the waterfalls are is a tourist town but they have a big ship and to see it from behind you think it might be a house but looking at it from the front it is a shop. Very well done.


Our next stop was Coffee Works in Mareeba we were all excited to stop for a coffee. It was a nice shop and there were lots of things to buy but we were hungry and coffee just wasn’t going to do it for us. So we headed into the town of Mareeba and had some lunch.


We then headed back to Cairns and on the way we stopped at Yungaburra where the Curtin Fig Tree is. You walk out on a board walk and there is this huge tree well actually it is a vine that takes over a tree it is very fascinating it see how this vine worked. We headed back along a very windy road and it seemed to go for ever. We stopped into the supermarket to pick up a few groceries and headed home for tea.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year Everyone. May this year be a year that the Lord teaches us more about himself. Today marked a special day for us as Malachi stood alone with support from a table.
Only 3 more days and we are off to Papua New Guinea. We are getting excited. We are enjoying our break here in cairns. Love to you all.