Grand Mercure Rockford Palm Cove

Arrived in Palm Cove and first impressions are a bit deceptive - the accommodation appeared to be above one of the booking agencies for the trips! Lovely Margaret on reception was very pleasant and gave us all the info directing us to our room on the 2nd floor. Going down this soul-less corridor - we were both getting a bit worried but once we opened the door - wow - lovely room, very ...

... of the night to ask if I though the chap in the Van next to us was the camp site killer!! and we had to get up in the night to close the roof hatch as it was raining - sadly we couldn't see the stars because of the clouds. I expect you are thinking how silly - we would have got bitten to death by the mossies, but oh no, we used Trudy's Mossey net and put it completely over the outside of the van = we called ...

... turtles to my list of animal sightings. A dozen or so of them were swimming about just below the viewing platform, which I unfortunately had to share with some very raucous children tourists. Both lakes were created in volcano craters, when underground steam exploded out, leaving a depression in the top of the crater where the lake formed.

Then I moved on to the ...

... von einem grossen Schluck Salzwass** anfuehlt. Als ich dann endlich all diese Maengel beseitigt hatte, ueb**kam mich gleich das Hui Gefuehl. Vor mir tat sich eine unbeschreiblich schoene Welt von Unt**wass**riffen mit seltsam schoenen Pflanzen und Riffstrukturen, mit all**lei bunten grossen kleinen und unfo**migen Me**esbewohn**n auf. Nachdem alle hei und sich** im Wass** angekommen waren, gings auch gleich los. Wir durchschwammen grosse Riffstrukturen ...

... Some of the coolest things I saw were the giant clams that had to be 4 ft wide. You could swim up and put your hand in it and it would close on you (only softly mind you). I also saw some sting rays and a shark, but it was pretty small and more scared of me that I was of it. What actually kind of scared me is when I was out on my own probably 50 yards from anyone else and on top of a plateau of coral. I came across a deep crevice in the plateau and looked down ...

... mais évidemment ici cela n'existe pas, c'est un peu comme en France on ne mange pas dans la rue ! lol ! du coup je fais des petits resto pas cher et je me suis quand même acheté du nescafé avec des sucrettes (car cela prend moins de place) pour le petit déj ! Jeudi 2 avril 2009 Bonne fête Sam sam. Je me suis levée par erreur à 5H30 et je n'ai donc pas dormi beaucoup ! Pourquoi ? et bien tout simplement parce que j'ai bien changé l'heure de ma montre dans l'avion ...

... to many beers and was still feeling a little bit worse for wear when we boarded the boat to the Great Barrier Reef the next day. The boat trip to the Great Barrier Reef was amazing. There were a lot of fish and and live coral to see. Business Class Wolfe even claimed to see a turtle although no one else saw it. We went to this little sand Island which was very beautiful and birds were breeding

... head. Statistics/Information Weather: Windy, drizzle rain, muggy - 26 degrees Lunch: $20 Camping: $16.50 Wednesday, 3rd October, 2007 (Written by Suzanne) Fishing at Palm Cove It wasn't raining this morning so that was a good start and the wind had dropped a bit so we decided to staying for another night as there was not use heading north as the beaches would still be all churned up and the sky ...

19.50 - An even earlier start today in order to begin the days travelling on time. We were woken up by Dad at 06.30 and after doing some last minute packing (and complaining to the manager about our late laundry) we were back on the ferry to Hervey Bay. The timing of our journey was critical if we were to arrive at Cairns today as planned. Once off the ferry, we had to get on the bus to catch our particular train. Thankfully the ferry trip went ...