Now that we spoke to you, Teresa, we have come up with a game plan for our time in Australia.
We arrive in Sydney at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 3, 2007 and I will make my own way to yours; we will return back to Sydney the night of Monday, August 6 as we leave for Cairns on Tuesday, August 7. Given neither of us has been to the tropics, we would like to maximize our time in that area! We would spend four days/three nights there.
From Cairns, we would like to fly the to Darwin, leaving on Friday, August 10. We need to overnight in Darwin on that night as we need to be up and ready for the 7:00 a.m. departure time for a 3 day/2night Kakadu/Litchfield camping safari tour:
http://www.billycan.com.au/skl3.htm We need to be back in Darwin by Tuesday, August 14 as we want to take "The Ghan" (
http://www.ntescapes.com.au/ghan/the_ghan.html) which only leaves Darwin for Alice Springs on Wednesdays/Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. arriving at 9:10 a.m. on Thursday, August 16 (which is Ethan's 13th birthday)! We would then spend a few days in the Alice Springs/ Uluru/Kata Tjuta area and then, we would fly back to Sydney, leaving Alice Springs on either Sunday, August 19 OR Monday, August 20 until our departure at 2:40 p.m. on August 25th.
I have already booked a few things once we're in Sydney, including going ot see "The Barber of Seville" at the Sydney Opera House on Friday, August 24th! Whew! It's gonna be a helluva trip!
