Hartley's Crocodile Adventures Palm Cove

Eigentlich wollte ich schon längst unterwegs Richtung Süden sein, hänge hier aber in Cairns fest, weil ich noch auf eine Briefsendung aus der Schweiz warte. Nachdem ich mich gestern vom Tauchen erholt und ein paar organisatorische Sachen erledigt habe, fahre ich heute mal eher planlos nordwärts Richtung Port Douglas. Sonne und Regen wechseln sich …

It was a short coach ride to Cairns, our final destination of our 5 week stay in Australia. Again, we had only managed to leave ourselves with 3 day here! So our plans to use Cairns as our base to explore Cape Tribulation and Port Douglas backfired. And apart from this, there was only one thing that we had to see before we could leave Australia. …

Arrived early in the evening at the Rydges Tradewinds Hotel, see MAP, GPS(16 54 58.45S 145 46 23.82E). The Tradewinds is really the property on the map identified as "Spa by the Sea". The hotel was very nice with a great pool and was right across the street form the Coral Sea. We had a great view from our windows and balcony, It was right on the …

It's amazing what the thought of crocodiles can do. Apparently it can get you out of bed early enough to get to the airport for a peak-hour flight, have your bags properly packed (as opposed to our experience going to the Barossa) and not making strange postal orders at the airport! What a success!

Clearing through …

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After two and a half months it was time to leave Asia, it was sad to be leaving such an amazing place where we had become so comfortable and at home, but we were taking with us so many good memories and made lots of new friends. Our flight left Singapore at 10:10pm and headed over Borneo towards Australia. We had a 2 hour wait in a transit lounge …

Hartely's Crocodile Farm
- Bart, the HUGE croc
- Sleeping koalas... They make a grunting, pig-like noise, can poop while sleeping, and sleep while clinging precariously to the tree branches.

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park
- Tried my hand at tossing a boomerang. Mine came back, but went approximately 20 yards behind me.

Today we went to Hartley's Crocodile adventures The first thing we saw was Charlie the Crocodile and off-course we had to make a picture of this, the second picture as one relative wasn't enough we saw was Jeffrey the cow...this cow was born only with 3 ...

... to the beach. Then we were off in the car to our pre-booked visit at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures http://www.crocodileadventures.com/ (thanks Trip Advisor) situated at Captain Cook Highway, Wangetti Beach (about 15 mins drive ...