Sydney to Cairns to Port Douglas to Cape Tribulation to Cairns
Started the day around 8 am even though Tina slept till 9 !. Colette & Michael kindly drove us to Sydney airport even tho they were driving back into the city later that night. Arrive in good time. Managed to get some more fantastic food at the airport. No curly butties for us. Lol
On arrival to Cairns our transport was waiting to take us to Port Douglas along the coast road where the Pacific Ocean rolls on forever. 'By the Sea' was our destination accommodation and we really wished we were staying more than the one night.
We did not arrive till after the reception had closed and quickly realised that they would not be open when we left the next day – so where would we leave our bags!! - We contacted the owners on their emergency number and it was no problem they would come in early for us in the morning – nothing was any trouble for them.
We ventured out for the evening and went to the Central Hotel. Inside it seemed a little lets say rough but there is a lovely veranda with sofas to take in the night and a few gins.. ;-) On the way back we discovered an ice cream place that had 42 flavours – it was rude not to try at least one or two of them......
We were up early the next day for our long awaited Cape Tribulation tour with Daintree Discovery Tours. We were greeted by Adrian who was the most informative tour guide we have ever known. We were a small but elite group of 6 travellers with another honeymoon couple from New York and a couple from Scotland.
We started the day with morning tea on a secluded beach with the opportunity to go sea kayaking, we had a walk in the rain forest – getting shown the oldest fern in the world, palm trees,
untouched and amazing rain forest. We had a swim in a creek before lunch in the forest and an hour long trek through the rain forest with Adrian pointing out so many amazing things and we came upon a carroway – big bird looks like a cross between a turkey and an emu!
We were then taken for a boat trip along the Daintree River to spot crocodiles, snakes, bird and frogs. The day was the best day yet – we are so glad we did it.
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As our Cape Tribulation tour ended we stepped off the bus and our transfer transport to Cairns arrived. Perfect timing!!
We set off back along the coast road and arrived at Hides Hotel for one night it is ok we suppose but only one night mind.
We are writing this as we have just had a seafood rattler – which had marinated prawns, crumbed prawn cutlets, beer battered Spanish mackerel, salt & pepper calamari, barramundi, salad, chips and dipping sauces. We did not finish it all but had a good go!!
We are now off to find an internet wifi spot so we can post this.
We are up early again tomorrow as we are off to catch the greyhound bus at 7:45am! To Airlie Beach, where another adventure begins.............
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