Saturday, February 8, 2014

Alice Spring, Ayres Rock, Olgas, Cairns (Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef)

Our hotel in Alice Springs, The Lasseters Hotel, the local rugby team warming up

The restaurant in our hotel, had a couple of cold ones here...

The national red flower of Australia blooming in the outback

The pool in the middle of the desert

aqua aerobics at the pool...84 degrees at 8 am

Judy ready for the plunge

our pool in Ayres Rock, The Desert Gardens Hotel

Dean's watering hole while Judy sunbathed

Ayres rock


Judy's new bench (-: near Uluru

Judy's purchase of an Aborignal painting with the artist near Ayres Rock

Ayres rock at sunset in its full glory

internet vending machine in the outback..$2 for 12 minutes

our camels getting ready to mount

This is our camel...Meryl, a female, 32 years old

a look back at our camel train

sunrise on the camel ride at Ayres Rock

camel toe

end of our ride, 1 hour

view of the Olgas

hiked to the base of the Olgas, 103 degrees at 11 am

Marlin Wharf in Cairns

Our boat to Green Island to the Great Barrier Reef

Green Island

The beach at Green Island

More of the beach at Green Island

Lifeguard station on Green Island

a jellyfish, Dean thought it was for Judy's implant

2 Finns Downunder at the beach on Green Island

Our boat to a platform 100 miles out from Cairns to snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef

Our platform on the Great Barrier Reef 

Closer view of the platform, which included a submarine ride, underwater observatory and snorkeling....restaurant for lunch too

On our boat the Reef King approaching the platform

Scuba doo...the one man submersible

On our way back to Cairns with Green Island in the background

Dean & Judy with Wally, the 50 lb humpback merrifish...

Fruit bats outside our hotel, big as crows and noisy here in Cairns

Our pool at the Novotal in Cairns

another shot of the pool in Cairns

Our aborignal performance at the Tjapukai Aboringal Culture Center

the performers...we all got face painted too

Judy and one of the performer playing the didgerido

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