So this morning we were up early, the first in to brekky. We packed and stored our luggage in the car before returning to reception where Russell, our tour guide for the day, collected us in his minibus. We joined 7 other tourists - 2 from Scotland, 2 from Germany, 2 from Melbourne and 1 from Belgium. First stop was Wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas where we saw crocodiles, cassowaries, turtles, owls, wallabies, kangaroos, snakes. Unfortunately it started pouring ...

So this was our allocated pool day - just relaxing. After brekkie down at the restaurant we returned to our suite, put on our swimmers and lounged on our private swim up lounge deck, just reading, napping and swimming. It was lovely. Sitting on a noodle and just bobbing around in the water was bliss, as was reading on the lounge chair. Our deck had a little direct sunlight from time to time, filtered by the palm trees, but it was mostly in dappled shade. The pool...

So this morning we had a leisurely start to our day, having brekky down in the Horizon Club room, and then returning to our suite to sit to pack and read and watch the people parasailing from the back of a boat down in the inlet. We had a late checkout of 12noon. After checking out we leisurely drove up to Port Douglas, just over an hour away. We arrived before checkin time of 2pm so we drove around the town and found "On the Inlet" - one of the restaurants recom...

So this morning we had a leisurely start - working to our own time today, which was nice. We had our cooked brekky down in the Horizon Club room and then set out for Atherton, heading south and then west, climbing up the mountains to the tablelands. It was really scenic. Our first stop was The Peanut Place at Tolga, where we bought all different flavoured peanuts, some hot peanuts and some Bundaberg ginger beer to wash it down. After that we turned south and call...

So this morning we had our alarm set for 6.30am. Breakfast in the Horizon Room began at 7am and was wonderful - eggs, bacon, sausages and tomatoes followed by rockmelon, honeydew melon and wonderful pineapple. For free. We had to get ourselves to the sky rail terminal to catch the tour bus to the Freshwater train station, where we caught the Kuranda Scenic Train. The railway line has 15 tunnels and 93 curves, and takes 90 minutes to do the 34 km journey, in old h...