The only thing cuter than a koala

Is a baby koala...

Back home after an extraordinary trip to Sydney and Cairns, Australia over the past 10 days with my son. We went pretty much non-stop - bridge climbing, zoo-going, Great Barrier Reef diving, kayaking, hiking cane toad racing, and 4-wheel drive touring. All culminating in a great day (for me, anyway) at the Queensland Public Library conference on June 5. Am I the only person who comes home from a vacation needing a rest?

Australians are uniformly friendly, funny and lacking in pretension.  To my favorite Aussie expressions of "no worries" and "gi-normous," I've added "magic." As in, "Look at that sunset, it's magic!" or "This weather is magic." And we managed to avoid the killer crocs and sharks (though we saw both) as well as killer snakes, plants, seashells, birds, etc.

But now it is home and back to reality. While I tried to keep up with my e-mail while I was gone, the RSS feed aggregator shows I have over 500 blog entries to read. I may skim. 

 Good to be gone; good to get home.

Beauty of Queensland's coast in the Daintree rainforest:

Beauty of Lake Jefferson coast (from my deck):

 

Comments

[Debra]

Doug

Glad you made it back safely. The Reef really is magic, isn't it?

Cheers from central Queensland