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Port Douglas Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Port Douglas, Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Had an amazing time yesterday snorkelling, three sites on the Great Barrier Reef. We'd done a lot of research as everyone wants you to sail with them. But in the end went with a small, well established operator who only did snorkelling and had licences ...
The Great Barrier Reel
I can't believe it - another early rise and mamma had only a small grump. We're on a Quicksilver Wavpiercer ( their name ) heading out to The Reef - weather pretty crap - ominous - they gave out sea sickness pills - and keep telling us it's going to be ...
Rain Rain and more Rain in the good ole Rainforest
... IGA Express store where everything is about 3 times more expensive then if you bought it in town. So, what did we do in Port Douglas??. well, I bought some magazines and books and read them on the street whilst Tui went from shop to shop and tried on ...
Perth to Port Douglas
... 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 ...
Port Douglas
We got on the bus at about 9.00, its a hour ride to port douglas so wasn't too far considerin the size of Oz n how spaced apart everything is - we witnessed a argument on the bus between two women sitting at the front and the bus driver (not a good move ...
Brisbane to Port Douglas
... can walk around as much as you want. There's a restaurant and a sitting out car and the food is a definite improvement on airline. Port Douglas is a small town about 1 1/2 hours north of Cairns. There's lots to do here as follows: * Snorkelling on the ...
The Beginning of Our Aus Adventure in Port Douglas
... I hear the driver talking to Michelle about things to do while we are here and the abundance of crocodiles...suddenly I'm awake again!!! Port Douglas is a very sleepy little backwater town (or at least is is when we get there) about an hour up the coast ...
Port Douglas
... mit vielen Hotels. Wir stellten unser Fahrzeug ab und gingen auf den Flagstaff Hill Lookout von wo man eine schöne Aussicht auf Four Mile Beach vor Port Douglas hat. Danach gings gleich weiter Richtung Mossman Gorge, leider begann es dann zu regnen. ...
Queensland: if it's not raining, you're sweating
... , maybe 10 days isn't enough time to drive 1710km and see all the sights - so we are looking forward to getting up to Port Douglas tomorrow and just relaxing for a couple of days before flying down to Sydney. However! We are going to Cape Tribulation and ...
An entirely new world
... of tourists. We couldn't be more thrilled that we made the decision to head further north before diving. Don't get me wrong, Port Douglas is still a tourist hub, but it's a different type of tourist. While Cairns was filled with hormone driven teenagers ...
Coyote Ugly @ the Iron Bar
... insight to the naming of places and islands and he also stopped at one point so we could take photos. As we arrived in Port Douglas, he firstly took us on a quick drive around the small town to orientate us which I thought was great, before dropping ...
Really Wildlife
The drunks next door to the campsite really excelled themselves last night by waking Gra up at 2am calling to each other. Cheryl slept through this but woke up damp. No not an accident in the night, just rain leaking through the tent, or so she thought ...
Speaking spanish!
... het Noorden gegaan naar Daintree rainforest waar blijkbaar het oudste regenwoud ter wereld eindigt op het strand. Maar eerst een stop in Port Douglas, ondertussen regent het dat het niet normaal is en wij dus van plan om hier zo snel mogelijk te ...
Port Douglas
Port Douglas, Queensland, AUSTRALIA 7th - 15th June 2007 Arrived in Sydney at lunch time and had a 5 hour layover which was fine as we had to collect the bags to put them through security for the domestic flight to Cairns, so there was time to look in ...
Port Douglas
... We collected our hire car. Everyone and anyone had urged us to not pay much attention to Cairns but instead concentrate on nearby Port Douglas, a gorgeous little beach resort. As it was only 8pm and Port Douglas was only 40mins away we headed straight for ...
Shop shop shop
Gra has gone snorkelling today on the reef so will write tomorrow. Rained last night but only cloudy and very warm now. I hope he has some sun out there though. Whereas I, have drifted into town to the Sunday market. Gra would hate this as there were ...
Ogladalismy przyszle, damskie torebki
Dzisiaj punkt dziewiata bylismy juz u bram farmy krokodyli. Dostalismy w kasie liste atrakcji co i o ktorej powinnosmy zobaczyc i zaczelismy intensywnie zwiedzac. Oprocz krokodyli na 10 hektarach przechadzaj sie tez inne zwierzeta- cassowary, kangury, ...
any port in a storm....
... swimming, which by the way is quite common, most rivers and beaches have warning signs saying croc's inhabit these waters. We got to Port Douglas and spent the next day relaxing, we had done a lot of driving and Andrew was feeling pretty knackered. Its a ...
Port Douglas and Mossman Gorge
Port Douglas was once a small fishing village and is still described as such by some guide books; however it is really a luxury destination for the rich and famous. It is a pleasant enough town with some high end hotels and restaurants and some ...
Snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef
... didn't see any whales - apparantly there is an albino whale that lives around the reef and only two in the whole of Australia, only 10 reported worldwide all time. Am pleased to say no one encountered any sharks, although they said sometimes you might ...
Where is the sun?
Woke feeling shocking today. No, not a hangover thank you very much, but my horrid stonking cold which was determined to get worse and worse. Feeling bit sorry for myself, I got up and did a bit of email updating and blog slog, nursing a huge box of ...
Port Douglas to Sydney - a repeated day...
And bleary eyed, we managed to get up, get on the bus and get to the airport. I was falling asleep again on the bus and I'm not at all sure that Dad wasn't as well. Annoyingly, Dad's flight back to Heathrow wasn't until 2pm that afternoon but I was ...
der weg nach port douglas
port douglas ist eine der grosseren staedchen im norden,noch vor cape tribulation. beherrscht wird es von reichen,vorallem aelteren australiern und vielen turisten die die waerme im norden suchen. fuer uns war es einfach nru eine willkommene abwechlung ...
Port Douglas - Day Four
Up again early in the morning - despite my best attempts at getting a lie in on our last day in Port Douglas, Dad had other plans and had sneakily booked us on a trip to see the Rainforest Habitat and have breakfast with the birds. So we hopped onto the ...
Port Douglas and the Great Barrier Reef
For us this was the trip that we had been looking forward to the most whilst being in Australia. We arrived in Port Douglas and checked into a campsite for a few days. We headed into the town to ivestigate which trip we wanted to do. There were so many ...