From Port Douglas to Cairns airport. We slept in a bit in our nice fancy room in Port Douglas, and had intended to go to the Rainforest Habitat and have 'Breakfast with the Birds'. But at $39 per person, I remembered having breakfast with our cockatoos Monty and Sukie... all they do is walk across your toast and eat your peanut butter! So we went back into the village, did a geocache at the lookout, took a picture, and had breakfast by the marina, watching the reef boats go out. There was the MOST unusual, unpleasant smell in the air... I didn't think it could be ME! We asked the waitress... there is a tree aptly titled the 'stink tree' nearby. It obviously has a VERY DISTINCTIVE smell of old mothballs. Num, num... very appetizing with my eggs, which I can't usually stomach at the best of times!

We headed towards Cairns, with not much planned. We stopped at the lookout that had hangliders at it the other day. No hangliders today, but there was a geocache, and lots of lizards. We also stopped at another one at Trinity Beach. Nice beach town, not many shops but lots of holiday houses. The cache was about 100m up the side of a hill, and neither one of us felt like climbing, so we had lunch and watched the world go by instead. Drew watched a Tiger Moth go by, and was hoping for a photo on it's return, but it didn't come back our way.

And that's about it for the trip back to Cairns. We got to the airport with LOADS of time, so we had a nap on a very comfy sofa. So very thoughtful for them to put real live sofas in the terminal!

We got into Brisbane and the hostel about 8pm. I have no sense of direction here. It's big, about 2 million people. No one seemed to know where the heck the shipyard was where Drew was to meet the ship. Finally, with the help of the hostel staff, a phone book, two maps and the bus schedule, we figured out how to get Drew to the ship (drat). We were to be up at 4:30, so early to bed for us. We had a rather nice room, too... our own bath! $72. I wasn't feeling well, so it was nice to have the private bathroom!