Part 2 – It is New Year’s Eve!

Luckily when we got back from our Reef adventure some of the restaurants in Port Douglas had re-opened and our guide, Derek had us booked into a local pub for dinner, I must say I am not a big fan of this queueing to order my food then queueing to order a drink, I sound very spoilt don’t I? It’s just table service is so much better, however, with lots of groups coming in its easier to have it paid up front and there isn’t a requirement to split the bills which could get very messy. No runners here!

We are packed up and on the road again. Today we are stopping at a local market and then have an Indigenous Tour before we head back to Cairns.

It was so interesting and definitely no swimming here and no walking on the shore, the Croc’s grow to up to 7 metres in length, they live for around 100-150 years which blew my mind and literally can grab you and eat you whole! Eh! No thank you. You can see the debris on this beach from the floods and Typhoon.

We head off back to Cairns to enjoy New Year’s Eve with a few stops along the way.

Our guide has kindly booked us into Hemmingway’s Brewery for dinner, there are fireworks at 8.30 pm for the kids and then again at 12 for the adults. I skipped the midnight one and was sound asleep by 10/10.30 so rock n roll! Tomorrow we have a 10 hr drive to Airlie Beach.

Happy New Year Everyone!

The journey down was 738 km down, I am so glad I took an early night, we have an additional driver today called Danny, who actually drove the whole journey down, giving Derek a well earned break today. Airlie was a welcome sight. I passed on dinner and just went to the pool. I am so tired today and just need time on my own, heading to the Whitsunday Islands tomorrow, so looking forward to it. To bed sleepy head. One bonus is that since I have landed on the East Coast I am sleeping!