Surprise!

We left sunny Cairns for blazingly sunny Mount Surprise, as we start our journey to the mysterious town of Darwin. We typically arrive between 4 & 5 PM, to minimize killing 'roos and to shop for food, but Mt Surprise has no grocery stores, or much of anything else except three caravan parks, which may have a lot to do with its name. We'll provide more details about our week in Cairns but for now, Rowan is resting from yesterday's dive on the Great Barrier Reef and Shirl is hunting down birds because this park we have rolled into has some sort of aviary. The photo is of Rowan's feet and some trees outside our van. That's all you get for now, little munchkins, until Uncle Rowan feels like getting up and doing more. Perhaps Auntie Shirl will regale you with a snapshot. Either way, you won't miss a trck anytime you click on Latest Additions under Detours. See it there, upper right?

Update on Sat, August 27, 2011 at 6:31 AM by The Untethered Folks

Decal for the caravan park we stayed in last night. Funny yet scary.There's not a lot to look at as we rolled back into the outback of Queensland. The little towns and littler roads between them aren't too remarkable, this little place being no exception.

We tore out of Mt Surprise like a herd of turtles after discovering a few fun little, well, surprises, in this town. We had a 'roo encounter while Rowan was taking a morning walk from one end of the town to the other (it's not big, so the walk was not significant).