Our last day in Port Douglas kicked off with an early morning walk along four mile beach. Quite bizarre to see a beach rush hour with everybody out walking and exercising in the cooler morning air. After breakfast we have settled by the pool, an hour in the sunshine is enough so we are hiding in the shade having a mellow day. We move to the Gold Coast, a final stop over before a one night stay in Sydney & the long flight home. Port Douglas is a town in tw...

Our down time continues with lazy days and mellow evenings. Port Douglas is deceptively large, a long high street with heaps of coffee shops and trendy boutiques, quite expensive with lots of visitors and older locals - reminds me of the movie 'Batteries not Included'. We wandered down to the harbour where we found waterside restaurants - too many to fit in before we go home. Port Douglas is very much like the Caribbean, maybe a bit more fancy. We ate at On t...

We have heat & sunshine!! After the wind, rain & hail storms of South Australia it's lovely to arrive in tropical Cairns. The next six days are mostly downtime and chilling out after the madness of the past three weeks. Port Campbell is lovely, our apartment very nice with its own pool deck!