Mum and Dad Down Under (2)

So Mum and Dad spent their second week in Australia in the Red Centre and Cairns. After a wet week in Sydney I expect they were looking forward to some sunshine, especially as the weather had been toasty in both places. It should therefore come as not great surprise that their full day at Ayers Rock was a wash-out because of rain! Yes – it really does rain in the desert. Unfortunately this meant that their Sounds of Silence meal had to be cancelled. Still, the rain did mean that they were able to take some incredible pictures of Uluru. In almost every picture you would've seen it looks orange or red. Well they managed to capture it looking blue! They also saw that it had it's own cloud! Even though it rained they still had a great time.

From Ayers Rock they travelled to Cairns where they were book on a day-tip to Port Douglas, Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest. The weather was much better up there and the trip was a winner. In fact they said that the beach at Cape Trib was the nicest they had ever seen. They also saw some salt-water crocodiles which was nice!

Whilst they were away Sydney had some great weather for this time of year. In fact we hit 29 degrees which is some kind of record for this time of year. Unfortunately I was back to work so I only got to see the nice weather out of my office window.

To save themselves a massive amount of time when they get back to Blighty, the folks have decided to allow me to go to all the blogging effort, rather like Mike did when he was here. So enjoy the pictures. There's loads of them - especially Ayers Rock which really does change colour in the sunlight!