I must admit (because Lindsay keeps reminding me) that I wasn’t super excited about traveling to Australia over the holidays. I don’t really know why I wasn’t excited, it’s possible it just felt like a hassle, or that we’d been moving around a lot (we’d done lots of trips in November around Tokyo). There was a lot of planning and transportation and such that went into the trip and it just felt like a lot. In the end, the trip was amazing and I have very warm / fuzzy feelings every time I think about it.
The trip had roughly four phases:
- Cairns and a live-aboard, diving the great barrier reef for three days
- Sydney
- Driving and camping from Sydney down to Melbourne over Xmas
- Melbourne