Port Douglas
Getting up not too early we had a hardly greasy muesli and left for Port Douglas. The way there was mainly coastal drive.
In Port Douglas we drove up on the lookout hill and had a good look on the four miles beach.
A good look at a beach.
That’s all.
Because after the lookout we had lunch and Nick was asking for some rainforest walks around the town. We decided for two of them.
One of them was the Mossman Gorge we could do just this afternoon and the other, the Whyanbeel track, we decided to do the next day.
Just to make shure that we would have a place to stay for tonight we went to the camping site and got one of the last two spaces that where available for tonight.
We drove half an houre to the car park at the beginning of the track and packed up our gear. Water, knives and GPS, food and first aid just to realize that the walk we wanted to do was closed due to land slides.
So we left everything behind to do the short loop. We had some fun scaring the shit out of the people on the suspension bridge when we walked over it in lockstep.
All the time we saw people in swimming shorts with towels and then we found out why. There where several swimming spots at the river with clear green water and people sitting on stones in the middle of the river. Tempting when the sunlight breaks through the leaves and lights the pools of water.
We went for our swimming shorts and had some fun swimming and climbing glitchy stones.
Back at the camping ground we had a lots to eat. But since our meal consisted of a large amount of beans Nick meant we should at least have a short walk befor folding ourselfs in the camper for some sleep and digestion. We went into the village center, peered through closed store doores and stopped at a small italien restaurant.
Time for dessert!
Back in the camper we opened all the windows and the roof hatch. Otherwise the beans would have killed us that nigth.
At least it would have been deadly for Nick since he was sleeping in the upper bed!
Monday, 29 May 2006