Crazy Life at The Warner's

We decided that while we were visiting Stacy and Kevin that Mark needed to scuba dive in the ocean. He has been certified for 20 years and has never been in the ocean before and what a better place than the Great Barrier Reef. We left on Wednesday and went to the night market on a hunt for souvenirs and found lots of fun stuff. Mark found him a new hat made out of Kangaroo and I found me an opal necklace to name a few things.

The next morning we woke up bright and early, the earliest this whole vacation so far, and headed for the marina and some awesome scuba diving and snorkeling.

This is before we started the hour and a half trip out to the reef on a very bumpy ride, by the time we got there I was sick, but it was worth it. Mark hired out a camera and took lots of pictures while scuba diving and I learned how to snorkel.


He is so excited, he could hardly sleep the night before. He asked me about 20 times if I knew for sure the alarm was set because he didn't want to miss the boat.

I even survived snorkeling. When I tried it in Bear Lake I started to have a panic attack and I was worried what would happen here, but as soon as I stuck my head in the water and saw all of the fish and the coral I didn't even remember that my head was under water. It was sooooooo cool.

Mark found Nemo and his family,

A huge clam,

a lion fish and

a sea turtle just to name a few.
I was just happy to stay on the top of the water with my tour guide, Ana. She was very nice and helped my get around the reef.

The next day we decided to take a tour to a different part of the country and very different from the ocean and went to the rainforest. We went on a boat down the Daintree River keeping a sharp look-out for crocs, as they call them in Australia. Towards the end of our journey, low and behold we finally found two of them. One with his beady little eyes looking at you out of the water and the other one sunning himself on the bank.

The rainforest has beautiful trees and bushes and the most gorgeous flowers.

We stopped at a look out on Four Mile Beach.

We ate bananas that were from a tree and not the store. They taste different than the ones we buy at WalMart in Utah. They are have a sweeter taste to them and are really yummy.


One of the last things we did was hunt for seashells on the beach. We found lots of seashells and brought them to Stacy's house. Stacy told me that she boils them to get rid of germs and so I put them in the pot of boiling water. Guess what was inside one of them?!?! You guessed it a little crab, Stacy says I am a murderer. I feel so bad I didn't even know he was inside his house.


We had a great time in Cairns (Cans) and loved seeing a different part of Australia. Next week with Stacy we will see more of the sites here is Sydney. Stay tuned for more adventures from Australia.