Latitude 16 Garrick House Port Douglas

... its a rarity these days in Australia! There is a lovely little church in Port Douglas called St. Marys by the sea - its tiny but so cute. I went in and couldn't believe the view inside - by the alter is a picture window looking out on the sea - gorgeous! So that was our time in Port Douglas - short but sweet!<br><br>We left for Cairns the next morning and met Siobhan and ...

... what a stitch-up!) We learnt recently that Goon is an Aboriginal word meaning &#8216;pillow&#8217;, the idea being that once you finish your cask of wine, you blow up the bag and use it thus.<br><br>It rained all night which was quite appropriate for being in the rainforest. Rachel was glad the next morning when it was cooler and she could legitimately wear more clothing to cover her bites.<br><br>We set off in time to beat the tour buses and headed straight up to ...

... tree that was hollow inside. Once we arrived where I was staying I met Mike and Natalie (from my greyhound bus from Hervey Bay), we went for a walk along the beach and did a couple of walks and grabbed some lunch in the evening. This place was pretty quiet so I chilled out in my room chatting to my roomates. Day 92 Today was spent doing the walk to Cape Tribulation lookout point with Nadia, which provided some nice views. I dossed around, killing time until ...

... nicht mit den eigenen Augen gesehen hat. Beeindruckt von diesem Wunder der Natur gings weiter zu den Millan Milla Falls. Einem bis zu 30 Metern hohem Wasserfall, der einem mit seinem idyllischen Dasein einfach in seinen Bann zieht. Natuerlich konnte es sich Max nicht entgehen lassen ein erfrischendes Bad in diesem den hier ansaessigen Abouriginies heiligem Wasserfall zu machen, denn zum einen soll sein Heiliges Wasser Wunderkraefte enthalten (von dem ich bis jetzt abere nichts ...

So, after getting Moby jumped back to life (we thought that he had been drained by the inverter left plugged in to the lighter socket all night) we chugged on towards the beach town of Mission beach. Now when I say chugged, I mean chugged. Moby was hitting new levels of slow and powerless. To give you an idea I decided to measure him on a 0-80 kmh test. ( he wont go to 100kmh for a standard test). Well, he took 57 seconds... to get to 70 and that was it. 57 secs ...

... from it's location - the only time sand has ever been allowed to be removed was when NASA put in a special application and removed 5 tonnes to make the hubble telescope! After our stay on the beach, we had some lunch on the boat and we were taken to a snorkelling spot where Stevie and I did a dive (where I seen a turtle and Stevie didn't!) and then snorkelled for a further half an hour - the water was absolutely stunning and we seen so much fish ...

... in. " i like my reptiles behind glass cages thanks" as she taunted me i noticed she didn't enter the enclosure but kept my own counsel on that. our next stop was the bird sanctuary which frankly was rubbish, i'm sure if i was a lover of birds then it would have been fascinating but i'm not really unless i fancy the person who is. we walked through it terrified of the huge black parrott which i assume was the aviery bully. - the craft markets were good. an ...

... side. We went for a tramp across a mini-des**t to an inland p**ched lake, Lake Wabby (stop s******ing, the Scots in the back) and back though the forest strewn with lizards. We also took a wade down the twisting Eli creek. The ov**night campsite was luxurious - our tent actually had a double bed and electric light in it! Turns out Pet** is a great cook - our steak was excellent. Woken up in the night by 'Ring of Fire' from one of the huts. The second day we ...

... was totally unexpected. We were walking by a coffee shop and saw a picture of a woman with a very red-faced Bill Clinton (presumably from sunburn) and next to it she had hanging a little story that Clinton had met her in Port Douglas at dinner, which happened to be September 11th, 2001. While having drinks with him after dinner, he got a call from someone where he learned about the 9/11 attacks. It's pretty incredible that she was having drinks ...

... purposes. Green Ants build nests out of leaves which will cure most anything that ails you. And you can eat the ants - the juice in their hind quarters supposedly tastes like lemon/lime soda. And we learned several aboriginal phrases ("Bana" means water, "mili" is a plant whose leaves will sting you, "goo goo bugga" means you talk too much, and there is no "s" for plurals in the aboriginal language...so a word repeated twice makes it plural - i.e ...