Round and about

After the excitement of the previous day Wednesday was a plotting day, and after a mornings to-ing and fro-ing we finally secured a campervan to relocate to Sydney! When we were travelling last year we wondered about having a campervan, well this now gives us the chance to try it out relatively cheaply. We have 9 days to travel from Cairns to Sydney, a journey of 2527km. You never know, this could be the way forward, sell up at home and live in a campervan!!

Alex was at work this evening so we gave him a day off from providing entertainment, and spent the afternoon on 4 -mile beach, very lovely it was too.




North Queensland is very caribbean-like, with a tropical climate and lush planting. Port Douglas is so picturesque, lovely beaches, mangroves and rainforest which reaches down to the coast. There are lovey little clapboard churches dotted along the coastline. This is a big sugar cane growing area and there are cane train tracks alongside the roads, plantations and factories.






Another great day out on Thursday. Alex picked us up at 8 am and off we went on the road towards Cairns. Just outside Cairns we arrived at the Skytrain station where we transferred by minibus to Freshwater train station where we boarded the historical train which slowly took us up through the rainforest to a village called Kuranda some 350m above Freshwater. The train took 90 minutes to travel 7.5km but the views were spectacular.









We wandered round markets, aboriginal art galleries, through rainforest and eventually made our way to the Skytrain station for the amazing journey down. We went sweeping over the canopy this time, taking in beautiful plants and bird life.




Back on the flat we had a quick trip to K-mart for Alex to replenish his very classy wardrobe!!

We finished the day by partaking of pizza with Alex and his Aussie girlfriend. Very lovely she is too! She is from Melbourne but also working in Port Douglas for the season. I have a feeling we won't be seeing much more of her though!!!

We finished the week by visiting Mossman Gorge on Friday, where Jim and Alex swam in the mysterious, deep and freezing cold waterhole. I'm not that stupid. Think crocodiles!









We were then entertained by an evening game of soccer (football), watching Port Douglas playing. Unfortunately Alex wasn't playing - he couldn't, one too many yellow cards!

Today, Saturday, we went to watch an Aussie rule football game. Quite entertaining but bloody hard to understand what was going on!

Tomorrow is our last day in Port Douglas, it's been a fantastic week but we've got to say goodbye again. Still this time it's only for 7 weeks, Alex has just over 4 weeks left in Oz then he's off on a road trip from Los Angeles to Chicago before returning home in early October. We've got our mammoth road trip to look forward to starting on Monday. Can't wait!

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Location:Macrossan Street,Port Douglas,Australia