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Week Five – Melbourne and the Great Barrier Reef

July 9, 2017 by mjrunaway 3 Comments

For those of you who have not been reading the full posts (we completely understand) you may have missed our photos page from previous weeks which has heaps more photos than are on each of these posts. Head to our Google Photos album for a collection of underwater pictures from our time on the reef. More pictures coming soon!

It’s been a wild month since our last post. We’ve gone from finishing up our short tour of Vietnam and SE Asia to spending just over two weeks trekking the Himalaya in Nepal, then several days witnessing the extreme opulence of Dubai, and are now 5 days into a month of exploring South Africa in Stockholm at the tail end of a three week Scandinavian road trip. This post is only possible thanks to the majority of the pictures being sorted and organized while still in Vietnam. The internet was yet again incredibly slow and unreliable throughout all of Nepal and is turning out to be the same through most of South Africa so bear with us on future posts as well. We hate to sound like we’re complaining about internet all the time but it really is amazing how far behind so many of these countries are with something we in the US take for granted.

In this weekly post we continue our time in Melbourne before heading up to Cairns to jump on a boat for 3 nights on the Great Barrier Reef, searching for Nemo, Dory and all their friends.

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Hello, this is Malcolm and Jessica's blog. This site is a way for us to share with friends and family our adventures over the last 10 months as we leave Seattle to see as much of the world as we can. It is very much a work in progress.

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  • Site Look and Feel Updated – And More Posts! December 2, 2017
  • Week Seven – Perth and Western Australia December 2, 2017
  • Week Six – Headed for a week in Sydney December 2, 2017
  • Random Trip Counters December 2, 2017
  • Week Five – Melbourne and the Great Barrier Reef July 9, 2017

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