Blogs from Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 36

Well, after 5.5 hours to Hawaii, 90 minute stopover there, 11 hours to Sydney, 3 hour stopover there, 3 hours to Cairns, and a 1 hour drive to Port Douglas, I arrived safely at Tropical Reef Apartments and Sarah and Chris greeted me with a cold beer. 27 hours of travel and I had survived. I thought my many trips to Ulsan, South Korea and Aberdeen, Scotland would have prepared me for this long journey but I know realize that those trips are small in comparison to my journey to Australia. My first afternoon/night here was very uneventful. We had dinner at 5pm (the early senior special) and I was sound asleep in bed by 7pm. I made it through till about 3am and I was up for about 1 hour before falling asleep until 7am. ... read more

Had a beautiful drive up to Port Douglas- the road has some amazing views. Past Palm Cove Becky- it looked wonderful but we didnt stop. Got to PD for lunch time, hostel - Port o'Call- is nice, quite big and not really like a hostel at all-got lots of individual rooms aswell. Took a walk into town via the marina- house boat for sale, ummm, tempting! Beautiful little church called St Mary's- apparently they have at least one wedding there everyday! Sat down by here and painted a watercolour of the jetty and a big storm cloud passing by. Luckily it didnt come inland. Its just bliss to have time to do this kind of thing. Had meal at night in the Bistro at the hostel- fantastic food. Ordered a shank of lamb and got two!! ... read more

tuesday was my last day in port douglas :( so, of course, i was on the beach by 9.00am and spent the whole day sunning myself and swimming in the beautifully clear, warm sea! (are ya all jealous?!) had the nicest time, didn't see a cloud all day, and in the evening i went out for dinner and a few drinks with the girls from my room. was a really good last day, and in all honesty i was totally gutted to be moving on. i think i could have quite happily stayed in port douglas for weeks and weeks on end!!! still, that isn't the point of travelling, or so i'm led to believe :) on thursday morning i walked up to the look out point in port douglas - there are some amazing views ... read more

hellooooo!!! well, saturday was super fun! i hired a car with bex and celia (two girls from tasmania) and we drove up to cape tribulation. cape tribulation is an area about 50km north of here maybe (not too good with the whole distance thing!) in an area called the daintree national park. its the only place in the whole big wide world where the rainforest actually meets the sea. its the most amazingly beautiful area. on the way up you have to cross the daintree river via a little mini ferry that literally takes about 2 minutes. we went on the dubuji boardwalk which is a 2km walk through the rainforest to myall beach. alas, we saw no crocodiles, cassowaries (evil dinosaur like 2m tall birdies that have a blue head and can disembowel you with ... read more