With its subtropical climate Tweed Valley offers visitors an endless variety of things to see and do. The town of Tweed Heads was a daily must for us and then from there we went on our adventures. Our first one being Mt. Warning, an hour westsouthwest of Coolangatta where we experienced a beautiful walk through the rain forest and leeches! This is the first spot of Australia, that the sun reaches each day at sunrise. It is about 1300 metres high.

On our second day of adventures we had lunch at Danger Point Beach, where the two time zones meet. After lunch we stopped at Surfers Paradise our our way to The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. We experienced aboriginal dancing, saw many Australian animals, flights/feedings of colorful lorikeets and saw the first joey in it's mothers pouch. The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

	Our third day we went to the Aboriginal Museum where we had a tour by aboriginal Joch. He made his own boomarangs so we ended up in this huge field where Michael had lessons. It was a riot to watch, sometimes it came back to Michael, sometimes it didn't. We continued to Cape Byron, the eastern most point on the continent, where "Australia greets the day." The lighthouse sits high atop the cape, with excellent views in all directions. We saw a lot of Australia's coastline, including Brunswick Heads. On this day trip we experienced many "roundabouts" (traffic circles), numeorus times we rode around and around them to figure out where we were going.

Our fourth day was a trip to "Ghost Gully" - really erosion. This was the beginning of our "eco-tour". Then on to Boo Noo National Park to gaze at the waterfalls. On our way to Bald Rock and the Hideout we saw many wallabies. We wanted to see the Balancing Rocks, but it was a long trek and it was getting to be late so we watched all the wild kangaroos eating. This area has many banana plantations, we ate a lot of "lady fingers". Farmers cultivate their plants on steep hills, using narrow, rutted dirt roads to tend and harvest the crop. Plastic bags are wrapped around the bunches providing protection from fruit bats and other pests.

Our fifth day we went to O'Reillys in Lamington National Park, up and around and through the mountaineous rain forest. We walked through a beautiful trail in the rain forest and ended with a treetop walk on a cabled and wooden walkway. O'Reillys

Our sixth day we went to the Cascades, smooth rocks with small waterfalls, for a picnic lunch. On our way there we stopped and fed numerous kangaroos though a fence. One mother had a small joey, it looked like a chihuaha. We stopped at other waterfalls and I couldn't bring myself to go in the water due to the experience with the leeches. Michael was walking across a rock in the waterfall and the next thing we all knew he fell head first, banging his arm, luckily not his head. We then visited the Natural Arch Bridge where water/lava formed a hole to create a beautiful waterfall with a cave underneath. Our seventh day we headed back to Sydney, stopping along the way sightseeing and staying one night Terrigal, a seaside resort town. Michael and I stayed in the "Wombat" room while Mom and Dad stayed in the "Platapus" room.

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