Palm Cove Beach

President Obama and his family spent a day snorkeling and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef before heading back to their hotel to change and spending some time at the beach in Cairns, Australia. The family saw beautiful coral reefs and fish. Sasha even touched a sea turtle that was swimming by! When they returned, the Obamas enjoyed a surfing …

Day 282 ; 17th Ellis beach cairns Day 19 Australia road trip Kilometres travelled ; not many!! Up not too early not too late, went for a run on the beach by about eight, followed by skipping and sit ups, little bit of sunbathing and then took ...

281 ; 16th Ellis beach cairns. Day 18 Australia road trip Kilometres travelled ; no idea we forgot to read the meter!! Phil had a conversation last night with a guy who slept in the toilet area due to the fact the wind was so strong and broke his tent, ...

... ceremony and signing of the register while enjoying some more champers. James and I then went for our photographs on the beach and a lovely walkway, 1200 photos later we headed straight to the restaurant for mock cake cutting and waited for everyone ...

... warm day in the Cairns area and today we decided to venture to the swimming beach up the road from downtown Cairns in a place called Palm Cove.  We checked out the bus route and hopped aboard for the 45min drive up the coast. It was worth it, we ...

... is Ellis beach, or Alice beach as the Aussies pronounce it, had me confused for a while... This is a nice spot, right on the beach sandwiched between the sea and the mountains. The beach is huge with nice soft golden sand. We walked for 40 mins one way ...

We got picked up from our apartments in Cairns by a Limo and travelled in style to Palm Cove, we arrived at the apartments and checked straight into our rooms which are amazing. unpacked our cases for the first time this holiday and took a walk down to ...

... , minifridges, and tvs in the other rooms). We didn't really have time to do much the first night other than get settled.  Most of Palm Cove shuts down by 7, so we didn't have too many choices of things to do anyways. We went to El Greko, this Greek ...

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... reef. have been into Cairns for the day and up to Port Douglas for the day. Other than that it's just been walks along the beach and chill out time! The weather has been a bit crazy with howling winds most of the time we've been here, especially at ...

We immediately fell in love with Ellis Beach and decided to stay for a few days! The campsite is right on the beach! White sands, huge palm trees and blue sea! We camped right on the beach for 3 nights, was lovely to chill out and relax on the ...