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Port Douglas - East Australia
Round The World Trip Journal

Text By Jo & Photos By Mike

(5th & 8th April) Port Douglas
Jo had remembered camping right on Four Mile Beach and walking through a few palm trees to the sand but we couldn’t find the campsite! It must have been turned into one of the big glossy resorts they have here now. We did, however, find a campsite that was only a 2 minute stroll to the beach and the same into the town so we were happy - and as you can see Jo has a loverly bunch of coconuts! The two photos of us with coconuts and the other photo of the beach with weed on it is Four Mile Beach. The aerial view is also looking down over Four Mile Beach. All the other shots are taken from Anzac Park to the north of the town, looking north up towards Cape Tribulation. You can see the lush green mountains in the background. Port is a bustling little touristy town – it has one main road with the shops all crowded in and it has lots of trendy bars and eateries – there’s obviously a lot of money about here and tourism is big business. They have a lovely marina from which the boats depart for reef tours too. Unfortunately, because we are having so much rain, the run off from the land into the sea causes the sea to look cloudy brown/grey not the azure blue you would expect. This, along with the strong winds we have been having, means that we have decided not to go out and snorkel on the reef yet. We hope to be able to farther down the coast. As we were driving along one day we spotted lots of black objects up high in the trees – they are fruit bats – or more precisely – spectacled flying foxes! We stopped to look at them and couldn’t believe the noise they make. It sounds like a mixture between a child crying and a pig squealing with some hoots in the middle and there were hundreds of them all fighting and squabbling with each other. It’s a peculiar experience! If you click on the photo to enlarge it you’ll actually see their golden spectacles. We reckon they look like cute teddy bears in vampire suits!

Highlights of our round the world trip:

Stop 1 - Capetown---> The City | Simonstown Penguins | Table Mountain Cable Car | The Waterfront Seals | Windsurf Action.
Stop 2 - West Australia---> Perth City | Perth Zoo | Cohunu Animal Park | Rottnest Island | Rockingham Penguins | Yanchep Park Koalas | Cervantes Pinnacles | Geraldton Windsurfing | Kalbarri Gorge | The Pink Lake | Coronation Beach Windsurfing | Gero Road to Cervantes | Carnarvon Jetty & Quobba Snorkel | Denham Lagoon | Monkey Mia Dolphins | Coral Bay Termite Hills | Coral Bay Quad Biking The Dunes | Exmouth Kangaroos | Mandurah Canals | Margaret River | Margaret River Wine Tour | Margs Windsurfing | Bunbury Windsurf | Bussleton Pier | Towns near Bussleton | Augusta Nature | Pemberton Camping | Pemberton Tall Trees | Cape D'Entrecasteaux | Walpole Tall Trees.
Stop 3 - East Australia---> Cairns Sky Rail Cable Car Over The Rainforest | Mossman Gorge | Cape Tribulation Rainforest | Port Douglas | Daintree Crocodiles | Captain Cook Highway | Beaches Near Cairns | Atherton Tablelands Fig Trees | Bowen Beaches | Airlie Beach | Whitsunday Islands Boat Tour | Great Barrier Reef Snorkel | Whitsunday Snorkelling | Town of 1770 History | Fraser Island Beach Driving | Tin Can Bay Dolphins | Noosa River | Australia Zoo Wombats | Sunshine Coast | Nanango Bush | Gold Coast Beaches | Byron Bay Beaches | Woolgoolga Beaches | Coffs Harbour | Port Macquarie Cafes | Forster Pelicans | Great Lakes | Nelson Bay Dolphins | Sydney By Day | Sydney By Night | Sydney's Manly Beach.
Stop 4 - New Zealand---> Auckland Revolving Restaurant | Rotorua Volcanic National Park | Lake Taupo & Waitomo Glow Worms.
Stop 5 - French Polynesia---> Tahiti Island Waterfalls | Moorea Island Water Bungalows | Moorea Shark Feeding | Bora Bora Island Buggying.
Stop 6 - Hawaii, Maui---> Maui Snorkel Videos | Maui Snorkel Photography | Maui Windsurfing | Maui East Coast Hana Highway | Maui North Beaches 1 | Maui North Beaches 2 | Maui West Coast Surfing | Maui South West Lava Fields | Haleakala Volcano.
Stop 7 - Hawaii, Oahu---> Kailua Beaches | Round Oahu Island Drive | Honolulu Pearl Harbour | Oahu Snorkel Videos.
Stop 8 - West USA---> Los Angeles City Tour | Venice Beach | Long Beach | Queen Mary Tour | San Onofre Surfing | Route 66 Drive | Las Vegas Casinos | Grand Canyon.
Stop 9 - East USA---> Miami Beach Art Deco.
Stop 10 - UK, HOME---> Back To Heathrow, Bringing To A Close Our Amazing Round The World Trip.