Saturday, September 21, 2013

A Change from Canada

We are finally in Australia and enjoying the beautiful weather. Our flight from Guam was delayed five hours. We were scheduled to leave at seven in the evening and arrive in Cairns, Queensland at midnight. However, a violent storm at Saipan (an island forty-five flight minutes from Guam) pinned the plane down and it returned to Guam at midnight. Hence, we arrived in Cairns at five am, arriving at our hotel at least three hours before our ten am checkout time!

However, from there things started to look up.


We moved Friday afternoon to a beachfront apartment on Trinity beach. Here we have remained on Friday and Saturday nights. During the day on Saturday we drove to and visited the tropical rain forest north of Cairns -- a great day. Now Sunday we are preparing for our flight to Gove and out first week of DBDOC workshops and training.


A picture only an engineer could love. We crossed a large river as we approached the Daintree Tropical Rain Forest.  The ferry winched itself across the river and back.  This is a picture of the cable mechanism.


A look out view over the forest as it extended down the slope towards the ocean.

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