Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September 2021
Well I woke on Saturday, the day after my snorkel tour still feeling a little ordinary, so we decided to have a rest day. We extended our stay at the Big 4 just 9km south of Port Douglas for another day and just rested and rested.
Then today (Sunday) we headed off on our way further south and managed to travel 50km south. Woohoo us! We just went for a drive down the coast which is a very scenic drive right along the waters edge with the mountains very close to the coastline. We stopped at Rex Lookout again, then in to Palm Cove where there was a surf carnival on today and then on to Trinity Beach. We gave our friend Nikki a tour of the area as she spent a few years here when she was younger. We then drove to Yorkey’s Knob which is another beach a little further south. As you will see in the pictures the water isn’t very enticing even without stingers and crocs.
We then drove on to Cattana Wetlands where we went for a walk in search of the elusive jabiru. Unfortunately not to be today, we only saw some green pigmy geese, egrets and a comb-crested jacanas with 2 chicks. Then on to our home at Lake Placid in a caravan park.
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- Male Australasian Fig Bird
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- Female and Male Australasian Fig Bird – they are very different and as usual the male is the most colourful.
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- Rex Lookout along the coastline heading south towards Cairns
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- Double Island from Palm Cove Beach..
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- Looking south along Palm Cove Beach. Pretty ordinary to look at today.
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- The concerns they have on patrol here – stingers and crocs..
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- Warnings about the stingers..
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- ..the nippers even wear full stinger suits
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- They have so many marine stingers to worry about here.
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- Trinity Beach a little further south didn’t really look any better. Missing the bright blue waters of the Great Barrier Reef today.
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- Jabiru Circuit viewpoint at Cattana Wetlands – but no jabiru today
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- Today we made a little progress south by about 50km. Woohoo!!