Judy & Brian Tour Oz

  Port Douglas, Qld July 26, 2024 Easy 130km down the mountain to Glengarry, which is as close to Port Douglas as you’d like for a caravan park. This year, as the Cook Highway is a bit of a mess between here and Cairns, we though we might slide down there tonight, stay in a hotel and I can do my Parkrun at 7am Saturday, rather than leaving at 6 am and hoping to make it on time. We stayed in a grandly name hotel, The Palm Royale, out at a suburb called Manunda. The hotel is conveniently situated not far from several shopping centres and a 10 minute drive to Paloma, which is where I’ll do the parkrun. Found the hotel easily enough, the traffic on a Friday arvo is manic, the shops all look half empty and to be honest, the whole area looked a bit seedy. Our room had a nice little balcony overlooking the pool and we decided to drink bubbles and get a pizza for dinner. All the pizza shops, and there are  a lot, just around our area, all seemed to be flat-out. I finally drove to o...

 Port Douglas Qld July 30th 2023 A photo shoot kind of blog today.... The original Parkrun on the Esplanade in Cairns. My fourth attendance. Tried for  a PB but fell 2 minutes short. The course is different from the first visits and is quite a good track. Cairns Qld Palms at Palm Cove, northernmost part of Cairns. One of Judy's favourite places.  We saw this string of empty carriages being shunted in as we were pulling into our caravan park. The line used to run right through the park and service the fields further down Mowbray Road. I just loved the early morning sunlight painting highlights on these rusty battered but still very much in used carriages. Glengarry Qld Kookaburra sitting on the proverbial wire. This is when you wish you had a proper camera with a long lens. Oh well, at least the phone fits in my pocket! Glengarry Qld Port Douglas Markets. Every Sunday whether they need them or not. Port Douglas Qld Unusual rear view of the Sugar Shed. Built in 1905 to hous...

Palm Cove, Cairns Qld. July 27, 2015 One hundred and seventy kilometres in three-and-a-half hours. That’s the mighty Bruce for you, especially up this far. Actually, I exaggerate a tad, we stopped at the sugar museum in Innisfail because it was a more enticing option than trundling along the goat-track, but still, it was ‘tedious’, to say the least. Here are some snaps from the museum, just for fun: Sugar Museum. Innisfail Qld Sugar Museum. Innisfail Qld Sugar Museum. Innisfail Qld Sugar Museum. Innisfail Qld We finally made it into Palm Cove, which is the last suburb of Cairns, about 20k north of the city centre. The van park is OK, at least we can swing a cat on this site, it’s rather nice actually. Some snaps from along the boardwalk : Palm Cove Qld Palm Cove Qld Palm Cove Qld Palm Cove Qld Palm Cove Qld Palm Cove Qld