The Boathouse
Travel Blogs from Port Douglas
Cruise Summary
... brilliant display of Red Footed Boobies (Birds...).We thought they were Albatross at first!!
Next stop was Airlie Beach in the middle of the Whitsunday’s. Basically the Ozzie version of the Caribbean. Turquoise waters, palm trees – the works. Took a boat ride to Dream Island – which is what it says on the box!!. Honeymooners resort and got talking to a lovely young couple who lived about 4 hours inland ...
Day 17 - Sunday
... Cow Bay before we started our journey back to Ellis Beach.
Cow Bay was where I say my next funny letterbox, a microwave!!! LOL!!
There was another slight detour on the way though, and that was to The Daintree Ice Cream Company…….yeh, our weakness but who could resist!! It reminded me a lot of Tropical Fruit World as when you drive in they have all different trees lining the driveway, so we thought the ice creams would also be similar. Boys were we wrong; ...
Port Douglas
... extrem teuren Lipstickpalms, welche rot aus der Masse herausstachen. Anschließend in das reiche der Reichenviertel , mit all seinen Villen und Resorts auf dem Hügel, welches mich an Russel in der Bay of Islands erinnerte. Madonna und Bill Clinton waren in einer der Villen schon zu Gast gewesen. Dann zurück durch den Ort selbst zum Hauptstrand, welcher überfüllt und auch nicht so malerisch aussah. Da die Sonne jedoch brannte, sollte Abkühlung her. Das ...
Free camp for work!
... and luckily at that minute a couple of guys were passing by and they stopped to lend ...
NxNE
Back in Cairns, I only got 1 night to get my ducks in a row before moving out again. Next stop: Cape tribulation! Cape Tribulation is located 110 kilometers north of Cairns, in the Daintree forest. The Daintree is part of the 'wet forest World Heritage Area' and due to the close proximity of Cape Tribulation to the Great barrier reef, you are also in the 'great barrier reef World Heritage Area' at the same time! There are quite a few endangered bird species knocking about in these woods as ...