Palm Cove, Tropical North QLD
We are currently staying in a small caravan park across the road from the beach at Palm Cove, which is about 30mins from Cairns, we are only paying $20 per night for a non powered site, while 500metres down the road, guests at Pepper's resort are paying $400 and more per night. So what if they have a fancy pool, we still got to use it, and we are all a step from the same beach.
It is really beautiful, we have been getting up each morning and going for a big walk and then spending the day laying on the beach and swimming. Finding it hard to leave because it is so pretty and so relaxing.
We went for a drive a few days ago to the Daintree National Park, Mossman Gorge. While there we swam in the fresh clear water flowing down through the rainforest. I will admit that the water was very refreshing! It looked too nice to resist a swim even though it was pretty cold. A very beautiful place in the world.
On the way to the Daintree we drove over a bridge where people were fishing, so of course Lee decided we should stop and throw a lure. There were some locals at the river, lying on the riverbank sun baking. I refer to the scaled kind. We counted 3 but after looking back at the photos we spotted a fourth poking its eyes out of the water next to a big one! They were across the river on the opposite bank, however, one got a little inquisitive when Lee was fishing, you can see it swimming up behind him while i took a photo of his catch. i was trying to quickly take the photo while screaming at him that the croc was coming!, It got within about 3 metres of us then disappeared, a few minutes later it popped its head back up then just cruised away. Pretty freaky but very cool to see our first crocs in the wild!
Today we went to Port Douglas for a look around, had a nice picnic on the water front under the palm trees. Not much else there other then shops, we had a bit of a look around but it is pretty expensive resort type stuff.
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