The first part of our Australia trip was spent with our friend Terry in the Great Barrier Reef. We landed in Cairns where we found an awesome park for the kids, then braved it and drove a minivan on the wrong side of the road up to Port Douglas. There we took boat trips out to the reef for snorkeling and scuba diving (it's about 30 miles out), visited the rain forest, and saw lots of wild life(including crocodiles, kangaroos, cassawaries and koalas).