Palm Cove photies

Looking down Kewarra beach towards Palm Cove

Kewarra Beach

Palm Cove beach area

12th November 2014

We arrived in Cairns at about 9am Sunday morning, a good flight of about 2 hours 20 mins! After picking up the hire car we drove the 13 miles North up the beautiful Captain Cook highway to our room in Palm Cove. This is a stunning area with paradise like beaches of golden sands skirted by Palm trees. Its a quiet sophisticated resort of lovely bars and restaurants that run alongside the ocean for a distance of one mile. This in my opinion is the best part of Oz and a bit like the Oz I expected, completely free of high rise buildings. Yesterday we went on the skyrail, a 7.5km ride over the tops of the rainforest and ends at the town of Kuranda. After a few hours exploring this town we returned via the old scenic railway again through the rainforest. Both rides offer you the option to step off and view the Forrest and waterfalls...a great day out. Tomorrow we go for a full day snorkelling on The Great Barrier Reef. Our b&b is exceptional and really comfortable, positioned about 50 yDS from the beach and a place called Dead Mans Gully where there are a couple of Crocodiles. WE‘ve seen the tracks they leave but are unlikely to see the crocs. Just wish we‘de given ourselves a bit longer in this Paradise.

Boat moored at Sanctuary cove.

One of these is a threatening wild tiger?

Surfers down at The Spit with Surfers in the background.

Nice meal down at the surf club on Burleigh beach.

Beechmont lookout.

Skywalk  rain forrest.

Skywalk

A nine foot carpet snake/python.

Still on gold coast

Just to clarify for those who don't know, we are at present staying with Barbs sister Anne and her partner Geoff at Robinna on the gold coast. Every morning we are up before 6am ready for our walk down at south Burleigh or Varsity lake, next to the beautiful Bond university. After this we leave home around 8:30 for a trip either in the seashore or the countryside. We've now visited some great places. Yesterday we visited Sanctuary cove, an exclusive golfing complex with a classy marina dominated by huge expensive boats. From there we went to Paradise point and The Spit near Southport and Surfers. Last night we went to the Surf club at Burleigh and had a nice meal. Today we went back into the mountains taking in Beechmont lookout, Canungra, where we had a morning coffee. Later we drove to Tambourine mountain and the Skywalk Rainforrest centre. On the way home we stopped at Yatala for its famous Yatala pies.

5th Nov photies

Great view .

So in love...but then it is the beginning of the tour!! Look out for the photies in 4 months time!

Just a reminder of where the rain forrest walk was.

5th november

Even though we've been away for a while now I am still not convinced that this is the country called Australia as I have not seen any kangaroo's. Koala's or men with corks hanging from their hats. Yesterday we passed New Brighton and today I was taken to Southport??
More seriously we have visited some nice places inland such as Hins Dam which was pretty close to a place where Mel Gibson used to live. This Sunday we fly to Cairns where we are expecting temps in the mid 30's.

3rd november

Its gone a bit cooler the last few days but still warm . Saturday we walked along the beach at surfers paradise, I personally couldn't see the paradise aspect to this place until I spotted the ladies volleyball competition on the prom. This made me overlook the resorts over commercial nature. The search for shoes always seems to be a priority for some members of my party and on Friday we spemt over an hour in a shoe shop with all 4 of us buying a pair of salomons. Sunday we returned to the country for walks around a large dam and resevoir. Great views despite the haze caused by forest fires. Sat.night we went to an international food festival at miami , listened to a reggae band drinking local beer and japanese food