went off to port Douglas today, needed to visit a beach and a lot of people say it's a lush place to visit anyway. Coach picked me up at 11, takes an hour to get there but you drive along the coast so you get to drive past some really nice beaches and views. Got into town about 12ish had a look round the wharf, then had food, bit difficult with it being like a beach town as it serves loads of sea food.

After dinner walked up a hill to a view point which was amazing, you get a view looking down over the 4 mile beach which I'll stick on dropbox. After seeing the beach I was desperate to get there so I walked straight over, soon as I got to the beach it was great. I dont really have many memories of beaches back home but this place was great, clear blue skies, 30 odd degrees, the water was clear and really warm which I'm not use to. I sunbathed for a bit then went back into town, had about hour and a half to kill before coach but I found a bar playing man city arsenal highlights so I watched that and had a pint of Stella.

Came home and my room mate vicky asked if I wanted to come out drinking with her and some friends, another English girl, two german and an Italian girls so I thought why not. Turned out they were all sleeping except the English girl liz so we had goon in her hostel then in the park to get drunk before we went out. Went to woolshed except it was the quiet area downstairs but it wasn't too bad.

Made friends with a few ppl and managed to lose vicky and liz so I hung around with tractor (she was from somerset) and shelby (welsh guy) we got a box of goon and went down to the esplanade and sat near the docks so we had a full view of cairns.

Started drinking there about 4 - 5am, and watched the sun come up, took pictures through when it was pitch black through to Dawn, nearly finished our goon but a police attendant or somebody told us to put it away. So we decided to go to one of our hostels, find a liquor store and keep drinking, for some reason we found it funny to greet everyone we saw walking past us, by saying either bonjour, Guten tag or morning, must have looked like typical British pissheads the way we were going on. So we walked all the way up the esplanade, liquor store didn't open until 10 and it was 8am so we went back to shelbys hostel, he showed us his solo skydive and by now were all so smashed and tired we crawl back to our hostels, fall asleep 8.30 am then wake up at 5.30pm what a waste of a day, goon has ruined me.