Club Tropical Port Douglas

... by development, and casualties are up due to road kills. They are the gardeners of the forest, as they eat may of the seeds, and their droppings then result in plant propagation. When I post the pictures you will see a pic of a road-warning sign for cassowary crossings. <br> <br>Lunch included a steak BBQ prepared by the guide. Though we were careful to select a tour that avoided commercial stops, we were quite ...

G'day good people,<br><br>We have made it to Wonga Beach which is situated 60km north of Palm Cove. Wonga Beach is perfectly placed to visit the Daintree, Cape Tribulation, Cooktown, Port Douglas and Mossman Gorge. But for this blog we will only visit Mossman Gorge and Port Douglas.<br><br>We spent a nice morning in Port Douglas which has a Noosa feel about it. It&#8217;s kind of funny these days how everything is ...

... Skyrail was good flying over the top of the rainforest canopy &#8211; something we could never normally do. We stopped off at the first station at Barron Falls and had a good look around the excellent visitor centre. We then carried on down to the Centre as the weather had turned for the worse and we were travelling through clouds and rain. <br><br>The Centre was excellent. Run by Aboriginals and we saw a dance show ...

... every great woman is a man checking out her ****.&#8220; (Hinter jeder großartigen Frau, ist ein Mann, der auf ihren Hintern starrt). Die haben laut gelacht und der eine sagte: Das ist ein Leih-Van, da sind sicher Backpacker drin. Die nächsten sagten: &#8222;Ach gucke ma, die schlafen hier.&#8220; Ich habe mir in dem Van einen abgekichert. Wie asozial man sich plötzlich fühlt, nur weil man in einem Van schläft. Dabei ist das eigentlich recht praktisch &#8211; zumindest wenn man ...

... our 'Fraser Island tour' in Noosa, although this meant we had to move on to Hervey Bay as this was the pickup point. Hervey Bay &amp; Fraser Island Its funny how all the towns along the East Coast are so similar, Hervey Bay - although nice, becomes just another town - same shops, same houses, same roads...its one thing that has disenchanted me a bit about Australia, the country has many many beautiful natural places but towns are all so new and ...

... god i need therapy, too many solitary conversations with my inner self. we started the day at Cairns railway station to catch the scenic railway far up into the mountains on an 1.5 hr journey accross ramshackle bridges and tracks built in the 19th Centuary. being english ellie and i bagged window seats and struck lucky as those who followed in our wake had to strain to see round us to get the views.... i felt sorry for the Swiss couple who sat near us but not ...

... ov**night coach trip - Cairns to Airlie Beach - a 12 hr+ trip but didn't do too bad on the sleeping front, which would bode well for future journeys. Rolled up into Airlie with no accommodation and no Whitsunday islands cruises planned. Found a travel agent and within an hour we had booked ourselves onto a lovely schoon** yacht departing that aft**noon for a 3 night cruise - a little dear** than we'd planned but we w**e told to make the best of the good weath ...

Thursday was our last day in Cairns, and it was unexpectedly a great day. We initially thought our flight back to Sydney was at 2:00, so we were going to go to the airport, fly back to Sydney, get some dinner and go out in Sydney for Courtney's last night in town. As it turned out, our flight wasn't actually until 6:00. We decided we'd try and get on the 1:00 flight that Virgin had, so we went out to the airport to get on the earlier flight. As it ...

... the island :-). Food at the lodge was really good for all our meals...but it was open air, with no air-conditioning, so you are pretty much hot and sweaty all the time. After dinner, several of us took a guided nightime walk through the rainforest. Our guide, Jenny was really wonderful. She handed us each "torches" (flashlights) and marched us single file into the dark wilderness. The path was narrow, full of leaves and vines and tree roots ...

... the surprisingly deep water.<br> <br>I know of one person from our tour that learned to swim before the trip just so they could do this, and I don&#8217;t think they were disappointed. The chance to swim amongst an amazing array of coral and come face to face with brightly coloured fish in their own habitat is a pretty special experience, infinitely better than any aquarium, and the further away I got from the pontoon the more incredible this ...