Happy Birthday to you MPR!!! I was first up and we had a lovely morning where I was showered with gifts by the four boys - lovely :) After breakfast we went down to the Sunday market at PD. Lots of alternative stalls with clairvoyants and soul readers?!? And tarot. Also lots of clothes and jewellery stalls. The glass blower that was there 3 years ago was there again and I bought a delightful glass dish / platter in red and yellow and blue. Very pleased. Unfor...

We all slept in today and I made a fried breakfast for the boys. David and I went for a walk up Macrossan St looking for birthday presents for someone's special birthday tomorrow. Successful !! Then we came home and had lunch and then we drove up to the Daintree River for a final crocodile cruise. We were very lucky as we arrived at crocodile express at the Daintree River right on 3 o'clock which was the last cruise for the day and we were able to board was n...

While we have been to Port Douglas before , we had never been to the rainforest habitat and we were all uncertain what to expect. S had booked this event a few days previously so we were up early and ready to eat at 8:30am. The breakfast and lunch area is totally undercover and it's a breakfast buffet where you can help yourself to whatever you want to eat. A number of injured birds are strategically placed around the eating area and Oliver enjoyed talking to t...

We triple checked our car hire contract and came to the conclusion that as we had a 4-wheel drive we could drive from Helenvale to Cape Tribulation along the coastal track. Interestingly the majority of the journey to Bloomfield was on macadamised roads with only a small sections of gravel. It was an interesting drive with many small villages nestled amidst the rainforest, mainly alternative lifestyle homes and in some cases also primitive houses. The main riv...

The big boys, T and S, went to Opal reef today with Calypso to do 3 scuba dives. We dropped them at the marina before 8:30. Given this, and given that D wanted to do a 7 hour return drive to Cooktown we continued on from the marina and begun the 254 k journey to Cooktown. After we filled up with Petrol, I was allowed to drive(shock horror) which was a good thing as the drive up the range to Mount Molloy was very windy and I was feeling quite nauseous and I was a...