Travel Review: South Pacific Mother-Daughter Trip, Australia & Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns, Phillips Island

For both my mom and me, there were so many parts of our trip that we loved but our most memorable part of the trip was snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. We loved that day excursion. We were able to swim out and see so many brilliantly colored coral and the fish just swam up to your face. We got to be in the water for about 2 and half hours. They had a semi submersible boat as well to take you around the reef with a guide to point out fish, turtles, and coral. And they served lunch on the ship that brought you to the reef. That was probably the coolest day of our trip. We also really enjoyed the day trip to Philip Island to see the penguin parade. The whole day trip took us to several different stops where we saw native Australian animals like the kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, and seals. We loved being able to feed and pet the wallabies and kangaroos. We also really enjoyed touring Sydney - it was a really cool city with lots of places to explore.  Adelaide was also one of our favorite stops because of how pretty it was there. The historic buildings were so interesting and beautiful. We loved the botanical gardens, they were huge and seemed to go on forever. It was just a gorgeous city. We had our overnight trip to Kangaroo Island from there, which we thoroughly enjoyed and loved being able to get up close and personal with more kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and other animals. We both said we could see ourselves living in Adelaide.