Is Port Douglas a nice place ?

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Originally Posted by Gumby

:D We are going for 5 nights.

I'm under strict instructions.

1. No contact with or from work.

2. No contact with or from this forum

3. No internet access

4. No mobile phone

Other than that, I open to suggestions. :)

She wants a complete relaxing time, nice restaurants, buffet breakfast, tours, cruises, sightseeing stuff.
(while she's doing that, I'll be at a loose end :D )

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Play some golf go out see the reef, try going in a glass bottom boat or snorkelling/scuba swimming on the reef. Go and do some fishing there is plenty of good fishing up that way.

Studley

Didn't see a woodwork shop there, but on the high side of the main drag, on a corner at the eastern end, there's an art gallery that had a couple of nice pieces of woodwork when I was there a year ago.

Or you could just go to the Central Hotel for lunch, & see if Cliff wood work.

And this Pierre? Sounds like a bit of a chap.:;

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Originally Posted by AlexS

...on the high side of the main drag, on a corner at the eastern end, there's an art gallery.....

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Is that near the Commonwealth Bank? :?

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Originally Posted by AlexS

...... go to the Central Hotel for lunch, & see if Cliff wood work.

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I wooden count on it. :D
I was supposed to pick up the parts in Cairns last night & they were there so I'll have to go back to Cairns Monday Morning to get them.... lunch might be a bit late now :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by AlexS

...And this Pierre? Sounds like a bit of a chap.:;

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Fizzer. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Is that near the Commonwealth Bank? :?


I wooden count on it. :D
I was supposed to pick up the parts in Cairns last night & they were there so I'll have to go back to Cairns Monday Morning to get them.... lunch might be a bit late now :rolleyes:

Fizzer. :cool:

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one more sleep :)

Please do not report any plasticine sitings in FNQ. :wink:

Checked in online, seat 6F - window. :)

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Originally Posted by Gumby

...Please do not report any plasticine sitings in FNQ. :wink: ....

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Not even if I step in it & have to scrape it off my boot. :shutup1: :2tsup:

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Is that near the Commonwealth Bank? :?

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Don't know. The road runs uphill from the main drag, and you go into the gallery from the side street - it's above the shop on the corner.

I'll have a look for it tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by Gumby

Please do not report any plasticine sitings in FNQ. :wink:

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yeah well, we're a wake-up to all these false alarms.

I'm sure I saw a placticine man on the esplanade at Mooloolaba this morning, and I checked with the airline, and there was definitely a seat 6F on the plane coming in yesterday! I reckon he's been laying down a carefully prepared smoke trail! :oo:

Cheers,

P
:D :D :D

I'm Baaaaack ! :)

Today is the first time I've seen the sun since last Tuesday :rolleyes:

It's nice to be home in good ol' Melb.

Gumby,

This is not good enough; we need to know whether there are still any sand dunes left in Port Douglas; whether you saw a crocodile or a cassowary; whether you were seasick on the way out to the reef, and so on.

Rocker

I has been a bit wet. :rolleyes:

Hope you didn't go mouldy. :D

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Originally Posted by Rocker

Gumby,

This is not good enough; we need to know whether there are still any sand dunes left in Port Douglas; whether you saw a crocodile or a cassowary; whether you were seasick on the way out to the reef, and so on.

Rocker

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I was seasick ON the reef ! :(

I went scuba diving and barfed 20 feet below the surface. Mate, that's not a pretty site but at least I took the regulator out first. :-

We did the all tourist things.

Croc farm (just me 'cos she hates crocs).

Sky rail and train ride back.

Daintree Tour inc a private walk through virgin forest at Noah's Creek (private property and untouched)

Cape Tribulation (why would you bother - its was wet and windy)

Outer Reef on Aristocat (see above :() but the reef is magnificent and the fish :2tsup:

Fabulous accommodation, right at the end of the main street and opposite the beach. That meant we could just walk around the corner and we were in town but it was nice and quiet there too. In fact it's a great time to go, just before peak season. All the tours were only about 50% booked so we had lots of room to move around etc.

Bacon and eggs every morning, restaurant and a bottle of wine every night, warm but cloudy, what more could you want. It was great.

We were on the reef all day Monday so didn't get a chance to catch Cliff unfortunately (or not, as the case may be :D)

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I has been a bit wet. :rolleyes:

Hope you didn't go mouldy. :D

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Not really. It rained every night but only for the last day and a half during the day. Not too bad, although we couldn't see much coming down on the train. It was cloud all the way.

I for one am really glad to be back. 5 days stuck with Gumby without a break. My god Gumby has a voracious appetite. I'm going to be sore for weeks.

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Originally Posted by Gumby

... barfed 20 feet below the surface. Mate, that's not a pretty site ....

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Brings the fish in.... :D

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Originally Posted by Gumby

... We were on the reef all day Monday so didn't get a chance to catch Cliff unfortunately (or not, as the case may be :D)

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Did you stick your head into the Central for a look around?

Which restaraunts can you recommend?

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Did you stick your head into the Central for a look around?

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No, it's a young person's place. Although I think there must have been a Willy Nelson look-a-like competition going on somewhere. :D Maybe it was part of Carnivale week.

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Which restaraunts can you recommend?

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Nautilus was really nice but not cheap. We set a match to $260 :rolleyes:

The Combine Club is pretty good for a cheap feed. I liked 'On the Inlet'. Nice food.
I think the best value for money and really nice food was at Zeus. I had the best baby octopus there...yum.

Actually, while I was there, I found out that cane toads are spreading south. But what they don't say is that joggers are spreading north. I saw one as far north as Mossman. :((

Have our cane toads already reached Mosman (Sydney) :o
http://www.cane-toad.com/movie.php

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Originally Posted by Gumby

...that joggers are spreading north.....

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I treat them the same as I do the cane toads..... :cool:
Have you ever noticed how it is easier to run over something with the right side wheel rather than the left side wheel? :rolleyes:
Why is that? :D

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I treat them the same as I do the cane toads..... :cool:
Have you ever noticed how it is easier to run over something with the right side wheel rather than the left side wheel? :rolleyes:
Why is that? :D

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I like the 'thump' as they go under the middle:)

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Originally Posted by Gumby

I like the 'thump' as they go under the middle:)

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I thought that's what the roo bars were for?? :? :D