Great Barrier Reef

We are in Cairns (pronounced cans) , got in yesterday......checked into our hotel ( they upgrated us to a suite..yah!!). We basically just walked around the city, we had dinner at a japanese resturant (very good) there is a big japanese influence here. This morning we woke very earily for our big snorkling trip.

Kyle here now...greta does not like talking

Anyway our trip to the barrier reef was nice, huge amounts of coral everywhere. they took us to a tiny tiny cay just sand( image a big back yard) then we walk into the water and off we went. Next we went to the Wonder Wall, which was a huge coral formation that just dropped off into the deep blue sea. Was very nice but no sharks or turtles...we really wanted to see turtles.

Tomorrow we are off to Uluru or Ayers Rock, it is like 110 degrees there. Give you guys more next time...

kyle out

ok ........so the trip to the barrier reef wasent just "nice" it was fantastic...kyles just spoiled.

getting you all caught up

Hey everyone....sorry it has been really long since our last post but we have been really busy. Let see last we left off we were heading to New Zealand. We had a great time in NZ. Our first stop was Auckland. Auckland is a big city with some much to do and all we had was a day. We walk around and shared a view atop the Skytower in the city center, next we visited an aquarium...before heading to a brewery pub and getting toasted...(do to the pouring rain).

Christchurch was our next stop and it was Greta and mines favorite stop in NZ. We walk all through the city the had beautiful gardens and a river that dissected the city.

Dunedin was our next stop and turned out to be our last stop til Sydney due to weather. Not to much to say other than I went sea kayaking...which was cool saw a huge sea lion that swam up to us. After we left we hit a massive storm that cancelled our scenic cruise through Milford Sound. It was horrible shit flying everywhere on the boat...greta thought we were going to die. Anyway the Tasman sea which separates NZ and Australia is notorious for rough rought seas. Sydney awaited!!!

We awoke at 5am to our ship passing under the Harbour Bridge with a perfect view of the Sydney Opera House...it was like a dream finally we were in Australia....After some goodbye to friends we were off and ready to explore and wow did we do alot of sight seeing and walking. Greta got blisters. We saw the Opera house, walked across the Harbour bridge, partyed in the Rocks, strolled through Darling Harbour, went to the zoo to learn about aussie animals and eat and drank alot. Our hotel the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel was quaint little B&B in a great location...block away from views of opera house and bridge. Plus there beer "3 Sheets" was the best beer on the trip so far and a much improvement from the average beers in NZ and Aussie.

We left Sydney yesterday for the Whitsunday Islands in the great barrier reef and wow our resort Hamilton Island is fantastic. We spent the day today snorkelling and lounging on the beach...the world famous Whitehaven Beach (commonly voted as the #1 beach in the WORLD!!) the sand was like white powder and the water was crystal clear with mountain islands drapped in the back ground......GREAT

GOt to go i am hungry

Kyle out

Fiji

Fiji was a bit of a disappointment. We were in Suva so it was basically just a big dirty city. We took a taxi to a forest hike but us girls got to scared to go when we were told to leave our belongings because of who could be in there. We ended up at a museam, and had some drinks. Nothing too exciting.Fiji is actually under marshall law right now so one of the places we wanted to see had been taken over by the military. If you are ever in Fiji.......skip Suva and go to the islands.

swimming with the sharks

We had a great day in Moorea, just about a 30 minute ferry ride from papeete. It was said to be just as beautiful as Bora Bora. We had an early snorkel trip planned, they took us to this little sand bar to feed sting rays and all these black tipped sharks showed up to...and i mean these things were big nearly 6 foot long. It was amazing almost surreal. Then we headed to a lagoon in between two islands...was great snorkelling. After that we took a nice tour of the island, for cheap too. We stopped at an alcohol distillery...tried some BOM BOM juice which was suppose to cause erection...it was a ginger liquer...greta loved it...the liquer that is....after that they took us up in the mountains to this point called belvedere lookout..it was an awesome view of the ocean and bays and mountains.

Our next stop Rarotonga was skipped due to weather...we are in America Samoa today it is alright but the weather has been rainy all day. we are really getting excited for New zealand in a few days...

We will be crossing the international date line in 1 day.

talk to you all soon

kyle out

Christmas Island,Bora Bora, and Papeete

After two more long days at sea we arrive at a small island called Kirbasi or Christmas Island. It was surrounded by water and that is about all i can tell you nothing else really there....No really it was a small island with beautiful lagoons we walked around for the most part and stole a coconut from a local. They did have 2 Chinese restaurants there but didn't get a chance to eat there...darn

Bora Bora was the most beautiful site i have ever seen....it is almost ashame to see this island at such a young age knowing that we will never again see a more beautiful island in our lives (unless we return of course). We bike the whole island and stopping in an incredible beach with a lagoon that stretched out for like miles Matira Beach. We ate at the famous Bloody Marys. The views all day long we incredible volcanoes on one side and crystal clear blue waters on the other.

Papeete or as i am calling it now She-Man Island was quite a bummer....we went on an excursion to the volcano craters and swam in some gorgeous giant waterfalls, it was incredible and we have awesome pixs of it too...we are here tonight to 4am so we are going to go out partying tonight with all the trannies and our new friends we have met on the boat.

All is well...the old people are growing on us. We love there spunkyness...they bitch about everything.

GO UofM..good luck on getting number 1 this weekend.

Kyle out............

HAWAII

We just spent the last two days in Hawaii. First we went to Honolulu which was absolutely beautiful,we rented a car and drove around the island, first stopping at Pearl Harbour then different beaches along the way. Pearl Harbour was an incredible site to see, we actually went out to the memorial were the Arizonia was sunk, you can actually see pieces of the ship sticking out of the water. Around 1200 men died on that boat which is now their grave.
Kyle found a great place to snorkel but the huge fish freaked me out so much that i had to leave him to explore on his own. Honolulu has it all the great beaches,the mountains and the feel of the big city. Waikiki was pretty cool, that was our last stop of the day we went to The Royal Hawaiian hotel for drinks, which is where Mia Tia's were supposedly invented.
In Maui we went on an excursion that took you hiking through the rain forest and to a couple of waterfalls. Very nice but i wouldn't waste time in Maui doing that again. We really didnt have time for anything else - stopped at the bar for some drinks but that was about it.
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tommorrow hawii!

well not a whole lot has happened..tommorrow is are first day at port, we are really excited to get off of the boat. We joined in on a game of trivia, it was name that tune....since the songs were from the 1920's (seriously) we won the prize for getting the least amount right. Today there was pool games and at first we were the only ones who wanted to play...kyle ended up with a pineapple and melon in his pants...but the best was an old old woman who put a watermelon down her suit....who said old people cant have fun!! Ok so hopefully i will soon have fun and interesting things to write but since i've been on a boat for 4 days.......

2nd day with the old folk

Well it's the 2ND day at sea and we are by far the youngest people on this cruise...it's ok though because we stick out so much that everyone knows us. Kyle had joked earlier in the day about how one of the old geezers would croak on the boat....so of course the ship had a delay in leaving because someone had to be rushed to hospital. Oh and yes we get most of the football games,a little disappointment for Michigan!The ship is nice though...very very clean,and our room is a decent size. I'm already sunburnt,i fell asleep outside and the left side of my face and neck are feeling the burn.Well more later! Only two days until hawaii.

GETTING READY

Only 2 weeks to go!! I should be able to post pictures and keep everyone up to date on what we are doing,so make sure that you check!