Hannah and Nate in OZ

These pictures are from our week long trip to the Whitsunday Islands with Zee and Maryann, we earned our scuba certification to 18m ( 60 feet ) while on the Great Barrier reef and Whitsunday Islands. The sights were amazing and we met some good friends along the way. We had a great scuba instructor - Harry , very patient and thorough, as well as a great Skipper - Basa , he loved to sail and never sleeps.  So we had the opportunity to explore some of the outer reef, and some amazing dive sites. Such as Bait Reef, Line Reef, Blue Pearl Bay, Luncheon Bay, Hook Island, Whithaven Beach - where the sand is 98% Silicon , the pureset sand on earth.. You can use it to exfoliate, polish your jewelery, and its even used for the lens on the huble Telescope. Hopefully soon I will upload the underwater pictures.. just need to get them developed. We Miss you guys back home! enjoy the pictures.  Oh and a special congrats to Rick and Jamie.. the newest newlyweds!

We made it to the great Fraser Island, the Largest Sand Dune Island in the world. The ‘cinqo dingos’ as we coined our selves w/ our island names: Big Fart no Chief ( Mark ), VB wanna make a plan ( Kevin ), One who zips alot ( Sean ), He who hates food ( Nate ), and last but not least to round off the cinqo dingos - Big Chief little fart ( Hannah ) . This island was one of the most amazing experiences for all of us. We embarked on a 3 day - 2 night camping trip just the five of us. Rented a 4wd vehicle and camping equip and set off. We met many animals including a couple dingos that checked out our camp on night 2, and huge possums and rats on night one. Spiders/mozzies/fish/ and birds were not in short supply either. Here are a few of our pics w/ captions.. also going to try and put some video up of the downright difficult 4wd driving required on this Island.

Met up with Hannah after her Music Therapy conference in Sydney for a couple of days. Also bumped into our friend Ben Hammond. hope you like the pics. Heres a small selection. We visited Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, The Sydney harbor, The rocks ( historical district), and Darling harbor. The place we were recommended for amazing fish and chips on the harbor edge.

some pictures that I like from the recent days.. from exploring the town of clevland ( where they are currently filming the next Narnia, to the town of Tweed heads. )

We made it to Queensland Exhibition horse-race day, and had a blast drinking cheap beer and routing on 1$ tickets! Had a really good day and night, check out the highlights.

SO Hannah and I, and some friends from our Church set out for a 50k walk from inland to sea. We made it about 3/4 of the way before our legs wouldnt let us go any further, who knew u had to stretch before walking. We made is somewhere around 35 k, but made it to the sea! The next couple days we spent recovering with brews and sun.

Finally spotted a Koala hangin out in a tree, this was at Noosa Heads, we went there for the day to have a bbq . w/ Justin, Becca, and Tone.

Can u see him?