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Port Douglas Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Port Douglas, Australia
Instrukcja na wypadek cyklonu
No to dalej czytam lokalna gazete a tam ogromny artykul na temat przygtowania do nadchodzacej pory deszczowej i cyklonow. I tak przy PODEJRZENIU, ze cyklon niedlugo uderzy powinno sie: - sprawdzic i zabezpieczyc wszystkie przedmioty, ktore moga poleciec. ...
Sharks on the Reef and other stories
... the waterway! We rolled back into town and returned our car before setting out for another evening adventure in Port Douglas. Following previous mistakes, we'd settled on sampling the cuisine at Bistro 3 which sported one of the ...
Day 6 - Port Douglas
... drive up from Cairns after a relaxing breakfast with Geoff & Linda. The drive along the winding coastal road between Cairns and Port Douglas is really picturesque. Traffic wasn't too bad and we checked in to the van park with enough time in hand to ...
Port Douglas
Getting into Port Douglas on the 27th: We got dropped off so Stef could get a Paudi head massage - Aboriginal head massage basically. It was alright, nothing to rave about though, had some nice tea at the end. We then got to Parrotfish hostel at ...
Shes got new shoes!! (thank goodness)
... were packed and for the very first time we were turned away from all available caravan parks! We considered staying in the street but Port Douglas itself was not that great either. Its clean and pretty but pretty much the same as Noosa (with no ...
Port Douglas
... shattered so Chris made the bed and I got into it. It's a hard life. Today we drove to the lookout at Port Douglas lighthouse, a great view. We followed this with 3 hours of internet which included booking 2 nights in early Jan at ...
Stinger suits and gropers
I decided to go straight from cairns airport to Port Douglas rather than going into Cairns. Driving around the coast all you see are beautiful cove beaches and lush rain forest. This was definitely the place i wanted to be to chill out and take it easy ...
Achtung boeser Wolf
... Walk zur Haengebruecke folgte ein kuehles Bad im Fluss, herrlich. Anschliessend fuhren wir ins schmucke Fischer- und Feriendorf Port Douglas. Das Motelzimmer, das wir vorausreserviert haben, hatte Platz fuer 3 Personen, was natuerlich ganz praktisch ...
Crocodiles!
... of the Forest. The bus was late to pick us up but they got there eventually and we were off to a valley not far from Port Douglas. When we got there the place was illuminated with tiki torches and it looked really neat. They had appetizers and wine in ...
Underwater Adventure
... in the Great Barrier Reef is a dream come true for some. It certainly was a must-do for us! When we arrived to Port Douglas, we were super excited to go snorkeling. Port Douglas is a popular gateway for diving and snorkeling trips to the reefs. It ...
Australia - Port Douglas
... as much as I would have liked to and tried to rest as much as possible in the hope that I would be feeling better for Port Douglas. On the Friday I managed to get out with the guys to the Australian Museum which was really interesting, especially a very ...
Living the Port Douglas life
After a couple of weeks working as a room attendant at the hotel I was offered a job on a local dive boat, Aristocat. www.aristocat.com.au. My job is as a hostie/snorkel instructor and basically that involves providing info on the barrier ...
Uciekly mi dwie ryby
Poszlismy od rana na ryby. Byl sprzyjajacy przyplyw, prawie cala plaza byla zalana woda. Kazdy dopadl do swojej wedki i zaczelo sie... Stalismy obok siebie, ale tylko pod moj haczyk podchodzily ryby. Bylo to conajmniej dziwne. Marian sie irytowal, ja sie ...
Port Douglas
... . We had 45mins to shower and walk to the marina which is 2 blocks away from our flat on the opposite side to the beach. Port Douglas is like a finger pointing up, less than 1 km across and four miles long with Four Mile Beach on one side of the finger ...
Daintree Rain Forest National Park
... stopped at the Daintree Ice-cream Company for some biodynamic organic ice-cream. We took a slow drive the 100km or so to back to Port Douglas and lay at the pool and caught up with our emails and re-booked at Green Island Lodge which we had cancelled a ...
Przepyszne kokosy i trofiejne mango
Dzisiaj zegnamy sie z Port Douglas. Spedzilismy tu dwa tygodnie, glownie odpoczywajac. Gdybysmy posiedzieli jeszcze dluzej to chyba trzeba by nas bylo zeskrobywac z podlogi, bo tak sie zrelaksowalismy. Rano wybralismy sie na pozegnalny spacer na ...
PD & Cairns
We arrived in PD early evening and checked in to our studio apartment before heading out to a lovely fish restaurant for supper. We spent most of Sunday exploring the town and after much deliberation by Luce on the sea weather and wind forecast for ...
Deadly Queensland!
... live here in Australia and alot of them live in Queensland. Queensland is in the tropical North East of Australia. I stayed in Port Douglas which is just north of Cairns and right in the heart of this tropical paradise (incidentally this is ...
Too windy for the cruise
We came back to Port Douglas hoping we would be able to go out to the reef. Unfortunately it was too windy so we only stayed the night before heading south to ...
Day 7 & 8 - Port Douglas
Well we didn't plan to stay here 3 days but we are having such a nice time we stayed on. Weather is quite hot and muggy but there is usually a breeze blowing and it's OK in the shade. Have been going for long walks up the beach and back through town each ...
Some photos from the first week
Finally, got a chance to get some broadband access to upload some photos. The mobile broadband access is fine if you're in a big city but not fast enough to upload ...
Port Douglas
... and Gretchen were very organized for their wedding so we were able to see a lot of them too. Port Douglas is a lovely small beach community. There are lots of fantastic restaurants, a nice wide beach and some great outdoors ...
Arrival in Port Douglas
We have arrive in Port Douglas, one hour north of Cairns. It is more of a quiet, resort-type town with great access to the Great Barrier Reef. Steve Irwin died here just recently. We have managed to find a backpacker's 'resort' to stay. It is ...
Pt. Douglas: Witnessing a Cyclone in a Rainforest
March 5-8, 2009: Port Douglas and Daintree National Park/Rainforest, Queensland, Australia Beware of Marine Stingers! We arrived late morning in Cairns, in northern Queensland, on our flight from Sydney on Mar 5. Cairns is a fairly large ...
The crocs at Cape Tribulation
... about the number of croc attacks on the east coast and he gave us the following statistics for average deaths per year in Australia:- * 1 - Shark Attack * 2 - Cassowary Attacks (huge birds, emu like, we were looking out for) * 2 - People struck by ...
G'Day from Sheila n Sheila
... like your creak. - the lunch wasn't bad either. From Adelaide we've flown up to Cairns and then driven up to Port Douglas in Northern Queensland. This is where Sheila and I have discovered our dislike for animals which aren't household pets - spiders, ...
Port Douglas- moje magiczne miejsce
... elementy przyczepy sa nasaczone woda jak gabka. Na szczescie daleko nie bylo- tylko 40km, poniewaz nastepnym naszym przystankiem jest Port Douglas w ktorym zamierzamy posiedziec ladnych pare dni. To male miasteczko ale ma swoisty czar, ktory zawsze do ...
From Pacific Baza's to Gnomes with attitude
... Baza!! A medium sized bird of prey .....We spent some time faffing around trying to get shots ... A pretty bird I thought ..... Right, Port Douglas it is ....And off we set ... Jill driving, I played at taking shots from a moving car ............. ...
No secrets.
It's no secret that Port Douglas is one of Australia's best holiday destinations and during our eight nights here we confirmed what we already knew and let the relaxed feeling of the place consume us. With a site secured at the well positioned ...