Today we moved from the Hotel in Cairns to our apartment in Port Douglas. The drive along the Captain Cook Highway was great, and nearly the equal of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Less dramatic, but endless white sand beaches, with rainforest hills rolling down to the shore were pretty spectacular.The next 2 days consisted of lazy days around the pool and shopping and eating in Port Douglas, at the end of which I was getting a little bored.
Day 9 consisted of a drive further up the coast to stop at the Mossman Gorge. A beautiful deepcut gorge with large cystal clear swimming holes fed by chilly mountain water. Again as it wasn't the wet season it wasn't quite as spectacular as I guess it could have been.
The afternoon was a trip on a boat on the Daintree river to look for "salties". I was pleasantly surprised to see 2-3 resting in the water next to the Mangroves, but am beginning to think Crocodiles are a tourist hoax, and are really plastic mock ups - they never move! We'll need to go to the Northern Territory on the next holiday where they do the dangle chicken carcass thing to prove people like me wrong.
On the Saturday was the most depressing part of the holiday as we stayed in to watch the AFL Grand Final on the telly. It was the all conquering Geelong against the girls team St Kilda, who hadn't won since 1967, and there was a bit of romantic optimism in the air. As it was the game was close fought and went down to the final 5 minutes. St Kilda unfortunately lost - gutted!
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