Coral Sea Retreat Bed and Breakfast Port Douglas

... not a very common system now because the plantation use a different type of cane which is much thinner and more effectively harvested by machine. That night we began to be rained on by lots of big pieces of ash about 10cm long. These smuts were all over the place and were clearly the result of cane burning so it is more common than anyone thought. <br><br>During the journey we called into Ayr to visit the next installment of Jen's quest for Big Things. This was the Big Carpet Snake ...

... and veg before heading into the cafe strip.<br><br>Architecturally speaking Port Douglas has some mighty fine buildings based on Balinese influences which wouldn&#8217;t take much to get used to living in, but work would be a great concern for most. The gardens as you would expect are lovely and luscious filled with heaps of tropical foliage and colour. After our stroll around town we stopped off for a coffee at ...

... er grüner Frosch außen dran) ist das Symbol, was Tully stolz als regenreichste Stadt präsentiert. In dem Stiefel sind auch lauter Bilder von Überflutungen usw. ausgehängt. Wir hatten aber Sonnenschein, wie (bis auf einen Tag) jeden Tag! Anschließend sind wir nach Mission Beach weiter gefahren. So bekannt, aber doch wieder gaaaaanz klein. Hier reihen sich vier Orte am Strand aneinander, aber trotzdem ist es hier ziemlich tot. Ein reiner Urlaubsort, aber anscheinend nicht gen ...

... their house to to pump it up. Some great caves called the Capricorn Caves were near there so Molly, Georgie and Kimba did an hour tour and loved it! Molly kept saying that I was standing on her head because she was underground. We headed off from there later than expected when BANG! after another 90 km we had a 2nd blowout! This one was quite scary and I could really feel the ...

... to get around. Upon arrival, we were loaded onto a big four wheel drive bus (the biggest on the island) which also meant that we couldn't go to half of the sights promised to us in the brochure (as opposed to the four wheel drive jeeps who could!). Our driver and guide ('Captain Kangaroo' - of Fraser Explorer Tours) spent around half of his time making silly jokes and telling us about the dimensions of the our bus and their other buses, as opposed to ...

Sarina is a short hop away from Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays ports. So after a night there we'd plenty of time to see Mackay and stop at a few places like Dolphins Head on the way up the coast. We did two of the walks in Cape Hillsborough National Park. On the beach, we were looking up at a bird with huge wings trying to get a photo of it to google it later and see what it was. It must have been a wedge-tailed eagle because it tried to attack another smaller bird in mid-air.

... tall trees of the nearby forestry region and north towards North Queensland. The weather is fine, sun is shining, sky is blue and its warm. Next we're driving through sugar cane country as we approach Bundaberg, home of the rum, then onwards to the Tropics with palm trees lining the roadside and lush, rainforest covered hills in the distance. Sugar cane is still the order of the day and this region produces a lot of sugar and ethanol. For lunch ...

Am morgen gingen wir nocheinmal zum Broken River - wir wollten die Schnabeltiere "Platypus" nochmal sehen. Was fuer Wetter war, muss ich ja nicht schreiben... Nachdem wir in Mackay eingekauft hatten gingen wir weiter nach Sarina. Dort gibt es eine Show-Zuckerrohrfabrik "Sarina Sugar Shed". Nachdem wir nun hunderte von Kilometern an Zuckerrohrfelder vorbei gefahren sind wollten wir ...

... in the darkness coming towards me. It must have only been a relatively small fish but it hardly mattered, my heart rate quickened and I shot back up to the surface like a bat out of hell, a quick reminder that I was the uninvited stranger around here. <br><br>Once the final siren sounded (much like in a football match), it was time to swim back to the pontoon and get back on the boat. In another curious safety procedure, we were told to stand ...