We woke up early on Monday morning and had coffee, toast with jelly and cereal. We talked about what exactly we wanted to do since we had the car. There were a few different options and they all sounded so great so we pretty much just had to go through the process of elimination.It was a beautiful, blue sky day with no wind so we decided to use that in our favour (favour has a U in it in Aussie) and check out a few beaches. After our process of elimination we had the perfect itinerary planned. We were going to check out a few different beaches and make lunch on the beach. We packed a cooler with bread, veggies for sandwiches, apples, ice water with lemon, and a kit kat.A few different people that we talked to suggested that we head north to Port Douglas. The drive that we went on to get there was a World Heritage drive with amazing sceneries. This drive is usually only about an hour and some change but because we were in no hurry in our day, we decided to take advantages of all of the stops and beaches that we passed and spend time at each place. This was the best option because we got to see a lot more and since I was driving I couldn’t stare at the scenery the whole time so stopping was to our best interest, haha!Our first stop was a beautiful beach that was home to salt water crocodiles and jelly fish. It was so beautiful so we decided to spend a little time here before we continued our driving. We walked on this beach for a little while until we decided to keep on driving. There was nobody at this beach and I didn’t get why because it was so beautiful and the sand was soft and amazing. Maybe the crocodiles have something to do with it though. We continued driving and traffic came to a stop right at a pullover scenery view point. So we thought since traffic was stopped we would just park and get out and check it out. It was another beautiful spot above the ocean so we took some pictures here and then the construction guy turned his sign around from ‘stop’ to ‘slow’ so we got in the car and continued driving.
We finally made it to our destination Port Douglas. This was home to a few beaches including a four mile beach. We could only swim in the parts that were blocked off and netted because of all of the jelly fish. So we set up here and stayed here for a while. We brought our top sheet from our hotel and used it as a big giant beach blanket and had lunch there. We had sandwiches, apples and split the kit kat for dessert. It was delicious. We spent a fair amount of time at this beach because the water was nice and clean and it was a really fun beach. . There were a lot of people because the weather was so beautiful. After lunch we swam in the ocean for a long time because we didn’t want to get out. It was really warm water but cool enough for it to feel really good and cool us down. We tested out my underwater case that we got for my camera and it worked. No leakages there. We had to test it out because the next day we were headed to the Great Barrier Reef.
After eating lunch, swimming and hanging out at this beach for a while we decided we would go check out the famous rain forest. I wasn’t really that into it because I have seen 10 rainforests since I have been in Australia and I went to a few in New Zealand also and they are kind of boring to me now. But since Ian has never been to a rainforest we went and it ended up being really cool, just like all the other ones. This one had a swimming hole with fresh water so that was actually really nice because we had been swimming in the salt water all day. . We swam in this little swimming hole for a while and then checked out the scenic trail through the rainforest. I wasn’t going to say anything about leaving because I knew that Ian had never seen a rain forest before so I just was nice and patient about it. Then Ian just said, “eh, actually this is kind of boring maybe if we leave now we will have time to stop at other beaches,” and I obviously did not argue there.So we walked fast out of the rainforest and started driving back to our hotel with some more stops at beaches. Finally after our scenic road trip we made it back to our hotel. We unladed all of our beach stuff and food and backpacks and everything and gave the car a quick clean and drove it back to the rent a car place and walked back to the hotel. It was not a long walk, probably about a 15-20 minute walk but we turned it into longer because we made some stops.Cairns has night markets every night that start around 7pm I think and end at midnight. We looked around in there for a while but didn’t really see anything that we needed so we left. They did offer 40 minute massages for 10 bucks though so that was a steal that I missed out on, haha! After night markets we stoped at Woollies to get an avocado and a tomato so we could have it in our salad that we were going to make for dinner but we also ended up getting pretzels and peanuts so we could have snacks on our Great Barrier Reef the next day. After Woollies we stopped at a gelato shop and got some ice cream and then walked back to our hotel.Once we got to our hotel we made dinner. We had salad, soup and steamed broccoli with a lot of lemon water. It was pretty late after we ate dinner because we had to drop off the car and everything so we just relaxed and went to bed awhile after dinner. We went to bed early again because our itinerary for Tuesday was booked and we had to be at the boat at 7:30am to head to the outer part of the Great Barrier Reef.
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