Latitude 16 Beachfront Terrace Port Douglas

... fins and then continuing our wading back. Suddenly Jen cried out because she had ‘trod in a hole and something had stung her’. Indeed when we got to shore it was clear that something had got through her neoprene boot and punctured her ankle, which was now bleeding well. Unsure of what might have done this, we consulted the reception desk and then decamped to the pharmacist (actually a doctor and we had met him earlier in the day in his capacity as purveyor of phone ...

... of which, Dad has decided to start doing a little running of his own in prep for his return to the ice in Sept. Guess what, Reido and I have to go with him now. Our cool down after the run is to pass a footy ball around without dropping it before we can have breakfast. Why has life got so many strings attached? On top of all that, we have to listen to Dad doing his best Steve Irwin (the Croc Hunter, he's dead but still way more cool than my Dad ...

... railway which was originally built back in the 1800s. It was the most beautiful train journey, past waterfalls and gorges and rainforest; I know the pictures will not be able to do it justice. Tomorrow we have an early start to catch our flight to Uluru - we're both really looking forward to that. The reduction in humidity will be a pleasant change! Love to all R&J xxx p.s. we are working on adding photos but it's not easy with such limited Internet time!

... do a tour instead of lounging by the pool - teenage brothers and sisters are, seemingly of a different opinion, as they have faces like thunder. One 70/80 old man who looks like a war veteran and sleeps most of the way - audibly. Finally in Port Douglas - there's two more people to be picked up. A very starey, curly headed yank in her 50s and her husband. Lots of guessing going on "I guess we'll take these seats, I guess we're going on the bus now, I guessI ...

... that is the size of a small swimming pool, where you are allowed to swim without fear of stingers and without having to wear a stinger suit. It sucked, but better than being stung. We went swimming nonetheless and I made Mary nervous by getting too close to the netting. The water was still that wonderful tropical warm as we were not that far south of Indonesia being this far north in Australia. After a swim, Mary and I went for a ...

... named after Captain Cook grounded his ship the Endeavor here in 1770. That night the heavens open and we have another tropical downpour that lasts until morning. The rain falls so hard it even shuts the frogs up. We then start to head back to Cairns, stopping at Port Douglas on the way past. Suzi then starts her long running fascination with Pandora bracelets, helping the jewellery shop owner with her retirement fund! We return to Cairns, with no speeding fines!

... in the CBD were knee high deep with flood water, and that senario spread from the majority of North Cairns. Luckily no one i know was seariously efected by the rain. In the space of 24 hours Cairns got about 278mm of rain. Since that week, despite the fact its the wet season, the weather had been fairly kind. A couple of days after the cyclonic rain i went for a walk to the Barron Fall once again to see if the rain had efected them. Well... compared to the trickle id ...

Travelled up to Mossman gorge for fantastic rain forest walks and a beautiful fresh water gorge off the beaten track - we had it all too ourselves and no crocs yey! Headed up to Daintree national park and Cape tribulation - our most northerly point we could access with 2wd. After a cable ...

... like moldy yellow spaghetti, but felt soft like velvet. The colors, although muted by the depth of water, were still amazing.<br><br>There were orange corals, yellow corals, corals with bright blue tips. There were one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. There were Dori fish, Nemo fish, and tons of other fish I don't think I've seen before. We saw entire schools of tiny little fish hovering over coral, schools of large fish that we accidentally ...

... stand up comedian. He made all the involuntary participants pick up a taod, kiss it, then place it in the starting bucket. Some of the women were really afraid to touch the toads and the host really made a show of them. Oh, and a certain Lisa from Canada didn't do too well either - check out the pics!. The next morning we had planned to leave Port Douglas but awoke to the heaviest rain we had ever heard at around 6am. Three weeks in Australia and ...