25 years later and we’re finally back in Australia but this trip was to visit Melbourne , Ayers Rock, Great Barrier Reef and a revisit to Sydney with climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge as a bucket list goal!
Melbourne is a fun, cosmopolitan city with lots of interesting, hidden lanes to explore! There are great coffee shops and restaurants everywhere. Additionally, there’s some amazing architecture that has been preserved among the many modern buildings.
From Melbourne we flew to Ayers Rock or Uluru as it is known to the natives. Although we enjoyed Uluru, we found Kata Tjuta to be much more interesting and certainly worth a visit.
Our next flight took us to Cairns for the Great Barrier Reef. Our boat to the Great Barrier Reef held 300 people and you could snorkel, take helicopter rides or see the Reef in a submersible. We were lucky in that our boat was about half full...we’re not sure the day would have been as enjoyable with a full boat.
Port Douglas is not far from Great Barrier Reef and the perfect place to stay with its many hotels, bars, restaurants and shopping.
Our last Australian stop was Sydney where we accomplished our goal of climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
Weather wise, February is the ideal time to visit. Melbourne was in the 60s …Ayers Rock 100 degrees…Great Barrier Reef mid 80s and Sydney in the low 80s.
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