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Published: March 3rd 2011
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Early start as the car picked us up at 05:55. It’s not raining!!! We hope that this is an omen for some better weather!!
We made our way back down the Captain Cooke Highway to Cairns. This time we could see a bit of the scenery in the half-light, with the Coral Sea on our left and the hills of the tropical rain forests on our right. With it being early morning there was still low cloud and mist in the valleys to our right. We pass some kangaroos at the side of the road. Out to sea we see a number of small islands just offshore.
We arrived at the airport at around 6:50, in good time for our flight at 7:55. We takeoff early, the plane is a prop job, a Dash 8 and I feel like I am back commuting to Oslo. Di treats propeller aircraft with the same intrepidation as she does tents!.
There is a lot of cloud about so it does not hold out good promise for a return to bright sunny days.
We arrived ar Hamilton Island – and hallelujah! It is sunshining !
The hotel car picked us up at the
airport, our luggage is whisked away and the next time we see it is in our hotel room. We have about 1½ hours to kill before our room is ready. We are staying at the Hamilton Island Beach Hotel, it is a lovely hotel, and our room is right on Catseye Beach. We are told to lock the patio doors as the local bird community led by the parrots had learned how to open the doors and take the sugar from the coffee making facility. I would have liked to see how the parrots did this, as the doors were quite stiff, but I never actually saw the parrot housebreakers in action.
We unpacked, booked a table in the beach restaurant for dinner and then went for a walk down to the marina. Everyone gets around the Island in golf buggies, which you can hire by the hour or day. We have complimentary buggies at the Beach Club, this doesn’t mean that we have are buggy, but we just ask and can be chauffeured anywhere. And if we are at a bar or restaurant we just ask them to ring the Beach Club and they come and pick us
up. We have lunch at the Hamilton Island Yacht Club which is a fairly ne building, looking like a scaled down version of the Sydney Opera House. The restaurant is on a jetty with good views across the bay on one and a good view of the marina on the other side. We go back to the hotel and spend some time by the pool and on the beach.
In the evening we ate at the hotel (For those following the food consumption: I have Seafood Panache which consists of Prawns, Soft Crab, Tuna Scallops and Reef Fish. Di has Duck. I finish off with Jaffa Crème Brulee).
Off to bed – It’s started raining again!
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