Port Douglas, Australia Travel Blogs

Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest
Jan 26, 2006 (44 photos)

... as its closer to all the tours (Great Barrier Reef and Daintree) and will save you an hour a day on transit, plus Port Douglas is a nice town. 2. Seasons here due matter. The Wet season from January-March is greener and has more animals about in the ...

Beautiful Beaches and Toytown!
Nov 21, 2008 (9 photos)

... drive itself took us straight up the coast and there were some magnificent views of the beaches and the ocean. When we arrived in Port Douglas we took a walk round town first. The place is like a little toytown theme park. It somehow doesn't seem real. It ...

Week Thirty Four - Port Douglas
Apr 20, 2004 (35 photos)

... . Despite my complaints about the size of the bill, the owner refuses to budge claiming that ISDN line charges are high in Port Douglas. This rather takes the gloss off an otherwise enjoyable stay. We go over the road to The Beach Shack for Sunday brunch ...

Port Douglas
Feb 6, 2009 (5 photos)

Michael's sister Rachael and her boyfriend Nunz, aswell as our mates Troy and Jean all preceeded our visit to Port Douglas by holidaying there so we had plenty of advice ahead of our trip north. It's a lovely little town. Think ...

We like driving in our van - do do do do....
Nov 20, 2008 (21 photos)

This morning we headed off on the short journey to Ellis Beach. On the way we stopped off at Palm Cove. This is a beautiful beachside village that seems to have a really slow pace of life. We parked up and had a walk down the beach - slowly of course - ...

Heading north
Jul 20, 2008 (9 photos)

... . Nice room but no view. For 30$ more, you have the view too. Good value for money. http://www.archipelago.com.au/ Port Douglas is very pleasant. It has less than a 1000 residents but sometimes 4 times as much tourists. The main street is 4 miles ...

Trials and Tribulations
Feb 3, 2006 (3 photos)

... selling crappy Australian paraphenalia. The whole town is so tacky it's good. A gorgeous Swedish girl in Broome had recommended a hostel in Port Douglas where she had lived for months. She had also described a tea bag as 'a little bag of magic' so I ...

Great Barrier Disappointment
Jun 12, 2008 (7 photos)

... (the place with the rum). I've been out on 3 different boats to the barrier reef in the Whitsundays, Cairns and now Port Douglas. All the trips were disappointing in one way or another. Whitsunday was because I didn't go diving because it was too ...

Port Douglas
Jun 14, 2003

... 'must-sees' and instead just to relax. Dougies Backpackers, where we're staying, doubles up as the busiest bar in Port Douglas as well as offering the accommodation. This helps laziness set in and again we spent the evening just drinking and chatting. ...

Cross Country
Jun 3, 2003 (1 photos)

... bottles of red wine and a good couple of hours before we all fell into bed. Day 131 - Port Douglas Pies are going to be my downfall in Australia and after consuming more than is usual or healthy, whatever weight I lost in Asia has soon been piled ...

Oop North
Mar 9, 2007

... I imagine the whole place must look pretty similar to when it was discovered a few hundred years ago. From Cape Tribulation/Port Douglas (the only 'civilisation' anywhere near) it was from one almost pristine area to another, the Great Barrier Reef, it ...

Port Douglas
Jul 15, 2009

... we returned to Cairns we were both very happy.  We spent two days in Cairns restocking the supplies and then headed up to Port Douglas. Unfortunately I got the dreaded 'lurgy' when I returned to Cairns and was holed up in the van for a few days ...

Peninsula-riffic Paradise
Oct 1, 2008 (4 photos)

We arrived in Port Douglas today, bright and early! The drive from Cooktown whizzed by! We had to drive over that bloody Mt. Molloy again though - I think it's impossible not to feel a bit (if not a LOT) queasy on that twisting, turning road. Blech! & ...

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF!!!!
Jul 15, 2006 (7 photos)

... of the entries you have been waiting for!!! our trip to the Low Isles of the Great Barrier Reef!! We caught a boat from Port Douglas at around 9:30am to the Low Isles we met a Marine Biologist called Michelle and she told us of some of the creatures ...

The start of my journey down the east coast
Jul 22, 2006 (32 photos)

... the sitting room and watch dvds. From there it was onto Townsville a few nights. Its a nice enough town and home to Australia's largest Army base. It also has really good aquarium but thats about as exciting as it got. The highlight for me was taking ...

Regenwald/Rain Forest
Mar 12, 2009 (5 photos)

... Gorge verbracht, wo ein Regenwaldfluss über mehrere Stufen und kleine Wasserfälle eine richtige Oase in bildet. Nach unserer Rückkehr nach Port Douglas haben wir dann noch den Strand und Ort erkundet und am Hafen eine Kleinigkeit gegessen. 12 March - ...

The Great Barrier Reef!!! & Night Safari BBQ
Jun 4, 2009 (32 photos)

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Tough Life...
Jun 20, 2008

Safely arrived in Port Douglas.   Spent the morning organising trips and sussing out the best pie shops (Stephen's Bridies have nothing on these bad boys!), before heading down to 4 mile beach to watch the world go by and listen to Johnny Cash and ...

Pt Doug
Mar 6, 2009

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Last month in Paradise
Oct 6, 2007 (42 photos)

... the only woman ever hung in the state-her and her lover supposedly killed her husband but the evidence was based on local gossip.  Port Douglas seems to be a famous place for a lot of things as it's the place where the two divers got left behind on a ...

With my friend Brenda to celebrate her ....th bday
Nov 28, 2005 (5 photos)

... law worked for Cathay Pacific!! The heat here is 32 degrees and very humid - it is a lovely drive from Cairns airport to Port Douglas - gorgeous aquamarine seas and sandy beaches - I also took some photos from the plane of the Great Barrier Reef - what a ...

Settling into Paradise
Jul 20, 2007 (13 photos)

... wasn't with us as there wasn't any coffee that day so we had to wait for the bus frozen cold.  Bierget left port Douglas and I caught up with Alan, Simon and Allan fishing on the pier - what an amazing view and fishing never seemed so appealing ...

Trying to download photos
Nov 1, 2008 (1 photos)

This isn't a blog update. Just trying to download some photos.

Port Douglas
May 12, 2009 (30 photos)

... cane, banana and tea plantations. The most fascinating and varied days drive we have yet to encounter. We finally got into Port Douglas late afternoon on the 12th and checked into a camp site to prepare for the highlight of this north-east ...

Perth to Port Douglas
Nov 1, 2008

... on an afternoon flight to Cairns and here we are now. Message for Dian Bennett: Do you recognise this last bit. Got to Port Douglas very late - as did you - and found key to apartment waiting for us in an envelope. Looking forward to the Barrier ...

Great Barrier Reef
May 4, 2007

More to come...

port douglas
May 4, 2006

spent the nite in port douglas

Trying to download photos
Nov 1, 2008

This isn't a blog update. Just trying to download some photos.

Great Barrier Reef
Mar 14, 2009 (5 photos)

Heute ging es mit dem Quicksilver Boot zum Great Barrier Reef (Agincourt Reef), wo eine grosse Plattform mit einem tollen Angebot für uns Touristen aufgebaut wurde. Damit uns nicht langweilig wurde, gab es Helikopterrundflüge, Tauchgänge, Schnorcheln und ...

Northern Queensland
Oct 3, 2005 (5 photos)

Greetings from very sunny Australia - what a place to shake off the jetlag!! We are currently in Port Douglas - a lovely resort north of Cairns, full of restaurants & boutiquey shops within easy reach of the reef & rainforest. We've spent a couple of ...