Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

We are into week 2 of our trip. Wrote this as we were relaxing on Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef. More on that later, but for now will update everyone on what we started.

As we walked around Sydney, our first day, Julie felt it reminded her of beautiful San Francisco but on a larger scale. Julie visited Darling Harbor while I worked away in an internet cafe.
Next we walked around Royal Botanical Gardens. Highlights included the fern house, feeding sunflower seeds to small parrots out of our hand, and sitting in Mrs. McQuarries' chair to get great views of Sydney Harbor, Opera House, and the city.

Dinner was at Longrain, a modern Thai restaurant in Surrey Hill, a neighborhood of renovated brick warehouse buildings.

The next day we flew to tropical Cairns!