hair today gone tomorrow

I cut davids hair, it was time. I really love it shorter. More pics without a hat soon.

On this trip we met up with people that we didn't really know, but knew through kinfolk or flowers and hung out with them. We met up with someone almost every other day and it was so much fun. One afternoon we met up with Luisa Brimble, who were were connected with through kinfolk. She is a really talented photographer and a sweet, warm person to be around. She brought some australian native flowers she had gathered (some from her yard-a girl after my own heart) and wanted me to put them together for her. She took some snaps of us at the beach outside the cafe we met at. Here we are looking awkward as usual when told to pose but not pose for a photograph. I love them, thanks luisa!

great barrier reef 3

This was the last site we went to and it was so pretty. The colors were much more subdued but the shapes were really neat. Too bad I am a maniac with disposable cameras so i only had three pictures left here.


That clam was about six feet long.

great barrier reef 2

look closely in this one. (cant see it? ok, that is a fish in the bottom left corner. peek a boo)

the great barrier reef

the highlight of australia for me was the great barrier reef. it was magical and i felt like a little kid. we went to three different sites and all of them were so different from the next. the colors and textures of the fish and coral were unreal, i was breathing too fast the whole time because i was so excited. good thing we had those trusty noodles with us. no shame here, we snorkeled with noodles. its pretty exhausting to swim around all day and those things make it a breeze when you want to just float and stare into the water.

i always want to go on little planes over wherever we are traveling, to see the arial view of things but we never do because it is always so expensive. this time we found some black and white flyer about flights over the great barrier reef for really cheap. we called and went right then for our flight. we got there it was at a flight school, and no one was around except for this really nervous desk guy that had no idea what he was doing. im not really sure if what they were running was legit, but it was pretty, and cheap and we came out alive so its fine. the desk guy was sweating while he was telling us how to put on the life jackets. we asked the pilot how many flights her had done that day and he said "seven, so if i fall asleep you know why." then he didn't speak a word to us the whole flight.

it was so incredible. i am hooked and now i am going to save up so we can do it everywhere we travel. i really regret not going over volcanoes in iceland, and i want to fly over game reserves in africa.