Wildlife Habitat, Port Douglas The shuttle bus is available for short trips within Port Douglas. Wildlife habitat is a short shuttle bus trip from Shantara and cost us 5$ each way. We waited about 2 minutes at the bus stop up the road and a short time later arrived at Wildlife Habitat. We had heard … Read more
Shantara Resort is adults only You won’t find noisy children splashing in the pool at any time of the day at Shantara. Its not that we don’t like children… we just don’t like the noise they make in a pool on holidays. This resort is strictly couples only. We love this place (ok because there … Read more
Port Douglas Lookout There is a lookout over Port Douglas that is well worth the effort to get to. We had seen photos of the view and found out that it’s a 15 minute walk from the bottom to the top. Flagstaff Hill Lookout Port Douglas – Magnificent view of four mile beach. In total … Read more
Melbourne Airport Car Park We set off early to allow plenty of time to get to Tullamarine airport. Got to the long term car park and made our way to the terminal. It was a chilli 5 degrees and we were dressed lightly for our warmer weather later on in the day. Happy to be a … Read more
Our Pilbara adventure was our first experience at sleeping on a self inflating mattress. They were really comfortable to sleep on. ( nothing like the blow up lilo style mattresses we had as kids. I remember many times waking in the night lying on the cold hard ground because of a slow leak.) We had … Read more
Our first holiday was to Port Douglas in 2015. It was to celebrate me turning 50 and an excuse to escape from a cold winter in Melbourne. We stayed for 5 nights in the Shantara Resort in a 1st floor apartment overlooking their stunning tropical landscaped pool. It really was our first holiday just by … Read more
Check in to the Windsor The Windsor had some great deals on and we thought it would be a good idea to stay in the city so we could both enjoy a few drinks ( turned out to be more than a few!) with our dinner on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant Melbourne. While we like more … Read more
To Paraburdoo via Tom Price We slept soundly on our last night in Karajini National Park. David could hardly move as he tried to get out of the tent. His back was stuffed from falling on his bum twice on our gorge adventures the day before. We had breakfast, packed up and headed on our … Read more
Conquering Kermits Pool and Circular Pool in one day This ended up being a challenging day both physically and mentally for both David and I. We innocently set off on a day that begun by dropping by an outlook and viewing the vast magnificent surroundings. David on arthritic and other drugs that upset his balance and … Read more
Slight detour for swim in Hamersley Gorge, Karijini National Park. From the car park you could see the vastness of the beautiful surroundings. We packed some water bottles and a backpack with some lunch and headed down the rock steps towards the bottom of the gorge. Once safely at the bottom we got ready for a swim. We floated … Read more
All in one day A swim in Deep Reach, hike down swim in and hike back up Hamersley gorge and a drive to our next camping spot at Karijini Eco Retreat. What a wonderful day full of great memories. Icy cold apple cider After paying, and getting instructions to where our campsite was located we decided … Read more