So, on the morning of the Melbourne Cup we ate a fine breakfast down by the other pool - sorry I forgot to take my phone, will try to remember to take pics tomorrow. We leisurely readied ourselves for a day's outing, then headed off to Mossman for the preferred petrol. Then we climbed once again to the Atherton Tableland - this time the northern end and a much easier climb I must say. We stopped first off at the Golden Drop Winery, after spotting some emus on the...

So today we found breakfast on the other half of the resort - "only" continental but I ate more than I do at home - sultana bran, yoghurt, fruit (fresh rockmelon and pineapple still in their skin were my choice), a little chocolate-chip mini muffin and a latte! Awesome. By the other pool. Doubly awesome. Tomorrow I'll take my phone with me and get some pics for you. When we returned to our suite we got out our new washing bag and did our washing - yesterday's clo...

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...