Pool Resort Port Douglas

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We then spent some time on a beach around the North side of the cape while keeping our eyes out for Crocs, went to a unmarked swimming hole known as Blue Hole for a dip, then to the Daintree Icecream Company for an afternoon snack.

On the way home we stopped in a town called Port Douglas, walked around the beach (4 mile beach), popped into some shops, then went to a restaurant for supper before getting ...

... trip and excessive bad food consumption. A simple appreciation should be given to the chip roll (salt & vinegar chips crammed into already 5 day old Turkish bread that sweats inside its plastic wrapping because we neglectfully rest it against a hot spot inside the car). The urge to continuously graze on food, any food, is inbuilt. The once every 2.5hr rest stop with a walk of 50m to a toilet without toilet paper ,nor soap, serves as our ...

... Heading to Cairns Monday morning with Jay and Francis and Staying at NJoy! hostel for the week. Gunna try and get a reef cruise and still contemplating the whole skydiving thing :s

One last thing worth noting is that i might be changing my route completely covering the northern territory and dowing the west cast first then flying from perth to adelaide and travelling up east coast

More details, photos and gossip to follow!

Smoody

Well we finally pulled ourselves away from Caves Beach and the Smith's hospitality and headed out to explore the world's biggest island.  It is also the only island which is its own continent.  In other words, Australia is big, real big.  We knew we had officially arrived during our stop-over in Darwin.  The morning newspaper's front page story was about a crocodile caught in a tourist area.  The photograph showed two park rangers tentatively lassooing a croc which seemed to ...

... so erpicht darauf). Kaum angekommen, ging es schon los mit Mittagessen und Rundflug. Das Essen war bescheiden, der Rundflug sensationell. Die Farben des Reefs sind aus der Höhe so richtig hervorgekommen, genialstes türkisfarbenes Wasser. Einfach toll. Nach dem Rundflug ging es zum Schnorcheln. Da gerade Jelly Fisch Saison ist, wurde uns ein Ganzkörper- Lycra-Anzug empfohlen.... woraufhin Tanja das ganze Unternehmen zur fotofreien Zone erklärte ...

... where every croc lives, had names for all of the adult crocs, knew who just had babies, knew which of the large male crocs had girlfriends and where those girlfriends lived, etc. Male crocs are quite territorial and they have a harem of girls within this large swath of the river. We saw probably about five crocs in total, most of them were quite still with barely their head sticking out of the water. Still, we are able to get ...

... 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 ...

... Wajul Wajul means waterfalls). On the way home, we stopped at one of the local rivers for a swim (fresh water this high up so no crocodiles) and our guides, Jenny and Matt, served us more tea and home made cookies and fresh coconut for a snack. We got back to the resort, pulled the leeches off our feet, had a quick swim to cool off and then met in the lodge for dinner. By now we were all pretty exhausted and worn out from the damp and the heat, so we turned in early.

... Coconut Beach. The next stop is the Cape Tribulation Beach where the rainforest gives way to white sand and fringing reefs. Enjoy a beach walk to the lookout. Enjoy a guided walk in private rainforest with an expert guide with the oppourtunity to make an easy ascent into the rainforest canopy on the new Canopy Tower at the Daintree Environmental Centre. Following Afternoon tea in the rainforest, the tour crosses the Daintree River on a Cable Ferry and ...

... trailer trash would do - we bought duct tape! Duct tape could solve almost any problem including dangling panels on campervans, engine work, and, heck, it could probably even cure cancer if you used it right. It came in handy for us as we stitched up our dangling panel right up. No more good samaritans going out of their way to help us - nope, they just saw the duct tape and knew we were the real deal trailer caravaners. We headed up from Cairns into Port ...