Blogs from Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 8

There's a bunch of reasons to come to Port Douglas in far north Queensland. There are two wWorld heritage listed reserves at Port douglas, the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rain Forest. Then there's the great food! Oh, the people are really friendly and very helpful as a bonus. In our case we headed north for the full eclipse of the sun on next Wednesday, so what can we do for a week? We opted for more walk, less fabulous food and have been excited everyday with what we have found. We have visited Mossman Gorge, The Habitat Sanctuary, Sky Rail and the Kuranda Butterfly Sanctuary. Now, if you are pregnant, I'm sorry to say that delivery of your baby will surely be delayed a few weeks as Mrs Black Stork has 3 week old ... read more

I have worked a LOT this last few weeks, doing between 5 - 8 days on and 2 days off, so the little time I've had off has been for chilling out. Besides not really wanting to write about work, I was too tired to write about anything anyway. I started writing this post about 2 weeks ago, so I've been constantly updating and changing it. I'll write about the highlights of the activities I've had the last four weeks or so. Today I've had the first day off after 9 days of work, so I think it's as good time as any to finally finish this post. First major event we had was that Jessie, my American flatmate, left Australia for the time being and went off to travel for a while until November, month ... read more

We were woken in the middle of the night by a massivetropical storm, when it rains here it really does rain apparently! We had left our washing out, not good! Despite the rain it was still boiling hot out all night so we didn't sleep too well. When we got up we drove 3 hours to Port Douglas which is our most northerly stop before we head back down to Cairns. Apart from going to the shops to get some food and cooking fajitas we haven't done anything else! But that's ok as tomorrow we're going quad biking!... read more

Well we are really chilling out in our little cottage in Port Douglas. Had to do the boring stuff yesterday such as washing and ironing. Mind you we have not seen a washing machine for weeks so it was great being able to really clean our clothes instead of having to hand wash them only. We have also booked a few things for the rest of this week. We are off to the world heritage site of Daintree Rainforest tomorrow so it is going to be a real early start for us of 07.30 - not used to this since we have been in Port Douglas I have been rocking out of bed at around 10ish - plus heaven on earth had a cup of rosie lee (that's tea if you do not understand cockney!) in ... read more

Us Chileans, wherever we are and whatever we're doing, will always celebrate our Independence Day (or at least try to), even if we just have a small get-together with friends, to commemorate the 18th of September of 1810 when Chile declared its independence from the Spanish crown (while the Spanish king Ferdinand VII was captive of the French). This is the day in which the process of our independence began and thus started a violent period in which the patriots fought the royalists. The real independence day was February 12th, 1818, in which the act of Independence was signed. And there was a still a Spanish stronghold until 1826 in the Island of Chiloé. But enough of history. We celebrate that day in Chile and the celebrations usually last at least a few days. No matter ... read more