Mantra Links Resort Port Douglas

... Crikey mates, anyone ready for a spot of footy?

The GBR is very cool. We went snorkling 20K offshore on a reef that was sticking out of the water. No wonder in the olden days, even before Mom and Dad were around, that ships crashed into it all the time. There were lots of fish, but no sharks or turtles. Dad was sad we didn't get to swim with sharks. Mom was happy that we all had all of our parts at the end of the day. They wouldn't tell you ...

... Nation schon so einen Ruf weg hat. Am folgenden Tag haben wir uns noch mal in der Sonne gewaelzt und in der Lagune gebadet. Lustigerweise habe ich sogar Daniel und noch einige Freunde aus Brisbane in Cairns getroffen. Fuer die ging das Abenteuer noch bis Cape York hoch.

Am 6.07. war es dann (endlich) so weit. Mein Flieger sollte morgens um 6 zur Gold Coast gehen, yehaa!!! Da der Terminal kurzfristig geaendert wurde, haette ich beinahe meinen Flug verpasst ...

We finally woke up to some blue skies which was nice - pity they hadn't been around the past couple of days. Hopefully it will mean it warms up a bit more too over the next few days.While we casually packed up today the kids went and played lego and on the bouncing pillow with some other kids. We got away about 9.30am and thankfully it was easier getting out of the park than it had been getting in. We stopped in at the Tolga wood works place which had ...

... into three sections: the rainforest, the grassland and the mangroves. each section the animals had free roam (for the most part) and they could walk right up to you if they felt like it. as a tour, we were allotted and hour and a half but i could have easily spent twice that long there. there was even a roost of flying foxes (really big fruit bats) hanging at the top of the aviary! most of them were awake and some of them would just stare down ...

... way and could hit Cairns/Port Douglas at any time, so to stock up with food, etc, and do not venture far. Luckily we escaped with torrential rain storms on the Friday and then Hamish went off to cause havoc down the coast. - An afternoon with the Crocodiles. We had a brilliant boat trip down the Daintree River and saw 4 crocodiles - the one was right up on the river bank and looked very scarey, especially after our guide had told us ...

... Mary returned from her run and got all showered up. We all decided to walk down to town for dinner since Sarah had not seen it yet and everything immediately around us was closed. We settled in at the Rattle and Hum bar and restaurant and enjoyed a good meal (I am always game for a wood-fire oven pizza). Thankfully, we had some drinks and one of the waitresses convinced us to be lazy and take a cab back home rather than walk ...

... love of the ocean by telling her that she has a potentially very harmful hole in her eardrum. Awesome. After a few beers to numb the news, we walked home. in the rain. had medicine hour and called it a night. Luckily, today looks much brighter and more sunny and sun is actually predicted for the rest of the week... sweet as. Lyndsey doesn't yet know if she is going to risk snorkling, but at least everything seems brighter in the sunshine. Toodles. K&L

... clever. You see a lot of Alexander palm trees along the way. They are named after a danish princess - and our guide tells us they are good for gardens as they attract a lot of birds. We also caught a glimpse of the famed Ulyssee butterfly - local to this rainforest it is very large and a gorgeous bright blue in color. We see big mounds of dirt and twigs off side of road which are are Scrub hen's nests. Groups of hens build the nests from twigs, leaves ...

... the second day we saw rain. It didn't ease off til around midday and we were told that the road we had planned to take would be flooded so we just sat around the campsite for the rest of the day and decided to leave the next morning instead. That night we tried to have a good night with the Canadians again, but the choice of entertainment was really poor. A band called the Hillbilly Goats was the highlight of the night and thats really not saying much!

... between gran and grandad is just the same - continuing as normal!! By the way there's lots more grandad wants to tell you that we couldn't possibly print! See you. It was lovely talking to Owen and Erin on the phone last week - pity Alix was asleep as her "hi ya" is missed. Laugh for Owen - dad still has the numbers wrong!! Message for Owen: Can you phone John Alford, his number is in our address book and give him the blog site as Dad thinks he forgot to give it to him ...