Life's a beach.

Wednesday October 27th

A beach day today.
We hired a car and drove north up the Captain Cook highway to Port Douglas, with rainforest on one side and deserted, palm fringed beaches on the other.

First stop was Four Mile Beach, a perfect spot for a swim . . .

. . . or so we thought!

As it turned out, there was nothing lurking today. Nobody got stung or eaten!

Port Douglas is a lovely spot - far quieter than Cairns and we wish we'd booked a few nights here as well.

After a spot of lunch we drove back down the coast to Palm Cove - another lovely place.

 Sitting on the jetty we noticed some activity in a very picturesque corner of the beach.

   

 A wedding was taking place and we discovered from the advert on a car next to the jetty that the marriage celebrant was no other than Aphrodite Anderson! Not only that, her number plate was VEN15. Naff or what?!

On the way back we stopped at Rex lookout - not only a great view, but an official site for hang-gliders and paragliders.


 It was another great day doing what we like best - discovering things for ourselves.



It's hard to believe we've been in Australia less than 2 weeks. We've totally lost track of the date and are glad we both take tablets with the days of the week on them!