Back to red earth and feathery olive green trees – and a very impressive monolith.
Meeting the turtles
On our last day here on the reef, we were lucky enough to have a clear calm snorkel. Continue reading “Meeting the turtles”
Birthday diving
We are now on Lizard island near the Great Barrier Reef for David’s birthday.
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Up in the treetops
The fruit on this farm is very alien to our apples and pears. The jack fruit is huge green and knobbly and grows straight out of the trunk!
Mount Sorrow and a swim
Up crack of dawn for a fruity breakfast and a short drive to the start of our hike up Mount Sorrow – seen from our cabin in the fruit farm above.
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Into the Rainforest
A swim in the morning made it easier to tear ourselves away from newfound civilisation and we headed up to the Daintree Rainforest via the chain car ferry accross the crocodile infested Daintree River.
Port Douglas
Here is a very smart riviera style town with high-end clothes shops, lots of restaurants and ice-cream parlours. Quite a contrast to the billabong.
Billabong to Beach
After a rather warm muggy night I was up to see the sunrise (around 6am) on our very private billabong. The full moon hadn’t set yet and gave a serene reflection in the calm water.
Australia Top End photos
In Cape Trib there is very limited internet so no new photo uploads which means likely no new blog for a few days or more.
Here are the photos from part 2 of our trip in the Northern Territory (the Top End). Taking in Darwin, Kakadu and Corroboree Billabong. Some of these are in the blogs and others are new (we upload more than need each day).
Sing a song on a Billabong
That has to be sung to the tune of ‘Never smile at a crocodile’ – No you can’t go wrong upon the Billabong… you can play ping pong – or even try Mahjong… you can add your own words now…
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