Things are very good here.  The weather in Sydney was always around 20. When we went up the mountain and on the cable car, the fellow said that it had been -2 just that week.  We arrived in Cairns on Thursday.  Our hotel is a resort.  We have a rainforest just outside our door and have five pools around the complex.   Today we went to the Great  Barrier Reef.  Amazing!  I was not brave enough to go snorkling. I did make a good photographer though. On the way there everyone in the group was concerned about motion sickness. We all loaded up on Graval. No one in our group got sick. But there were others who did. The big joke was that if you felt sick then you should open up the barf bag and then read the instructions inside the bag. Tomorrow we hit the mountains. It is really crazy here.  The only place that has free wifi is McDonalds. In the hotels it costs $10 an hour or $25 for the day.  They don't even have it in the airports. Also, when you get into the room you have a special place to insert your room card in order to turn on the power to the room.  We leave for Brisbane on Sunday. Get back to you again when I am near another McD's. G'day.