The Devil's in the Details (or You Asked For It)

The latest piece of my schedule is that I'm having lunch on the 12th at the home Diane Bell, the mother of my friend Genevieve. Diane has been wonderfully generous and I'm looking forward to taking her whale watching the next day followed by dinner at one of Genevieve's favorite restaurants. These are the kinds of experiences that make travel much more than sightseeing.

I've had a request to add links for more aspects of my trip. These may be bedeviling details for some. If you're one of those, you probably want to skip the rest of this post. For those who want to take as much of this trip as possible vicariously, read on. The following are my planned activities with links where possible.

August 8:

• AM - Whale Watch
• PM - Begin taking advantage of my Sydney SmartCard by taking a city tour

August 9: Taronga Zoo including Aussie Gold Tour
August 10-11: More SmartCard use (Harbor Cruise, Opera House Tour, Aquarium, etc.)
August 12

• Lunch Diane Bell
• Tour to Urimbirra and to see the Little Penguins of Granite Island

August 13:

• Land whale watching
• Visit to South Australia Whale Center
• Whale watch cruise (See Granite Island link above)
• Dinner with Diane Bell

August 14: Kangaroo Island Tour

August 15: Australia Zoo (Crikey, it's Steve Irwin, but it's free)

August 16:

• AM - Dugong Watch
• PM - Whale Watch

August 17: More whale watching

Augsust 18-21: Heron Island

August 22: Great Barrier Reef with Wavelength

August 23:

• Day - Kuranda
• Evening - Tjapukai

August 24: Great Barrier Reef with Reef Magic

August 25: Platypus tour if available. If not, back to the Reef

That's it for now. Enough, isn't it?