Port Douglas Day 3

Well we’re really getting into the swing of this place, even if our livers are worried! We’re really enjoying hanging by the beach all day and lazily wandering around town for breakfast, lunch and dinner! What a life. Actually we love the fact that the place is much cooler than Cairns. Its quite a lot more comfortable than Cairns in many ways, yet only 70kms away. I guess its not unlike Mandurah and Perth in terms of distance but restaurants… oh, there’s just so many and all open late and offering great service.

After a leisurely breakfast we caught up with Wayne and Sharon. We joined them round their camp table and Wayne introduced us to the finer points of coconut eating. Since there were many fallen coconuts surrounding us. As we were watching Wayne and Steve take turns trying to remove the thick husk to this beastie a huge branch fell down out of a nearby tree with about 3 coconuts on it. You can see why they say beware of falling coconuts! We were astonished at how hard they hit the soft ground!

Once Wayne got one open, Steve started work on another. Midget was quite taken by the human food we were consuming. Wayne threw her a couple of bits and she swallowed them whole! Then Midget was passed a whole opened coconut which she promptly started demolishing. It worked wonders, not only for her teeth, but also her gut as you can see by her distended stomach in the picture. We were rolling around laughing at the dog who gorged herself as usual!

We then sat around longer and enjoyed lunch with Wayne and Sharon quite late in the afternoon. After more sun, relaxation and the like, we joined the many others down on the waters’ edge to watch the sunset to the west, then the full moon rise to the east on this quaint palm encrusted peninsular.

We then wandered back into town for desert and coffee (as we were still quite full from our late lunch). What a great day!