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Mossman to Port Douglas - GBR jitters- Day 38

Lovely brekkie and chat and posed for photos for Tina. Drove to the signposted WWII bomb site outside Mossman only to drive past it and then find a slightly underwhelming statue of a bomb commemorating the only injured civilian in Queensland during the war! We then drove to Mossman gorge and got a shuttle bus (very easily accessible) up to the gorge rather than walk - more as that's what the local community request rather than shirking the exercise. The boardwalk there gets you to a nice view of the river and gorge and I did the short loop walk alone to the next bridge - a great bouncy suspension bridge. I waited til everyone had crossed it to get a great panoramic photo but shortly into it found I was bouncing all over the chop as a family stomped across the bridge. Finally managed to get a shot after they'd crossed and the bridge stopped moving! We headed back in the bus to the car and bought a micro SD card for the Go Pro and some provisions at Woolies before the drive to Port Douglas. On our way to check out one of the other local beaches I suddenly noticed the name of the area -Bonnie Doon - "ahh feel the serenity". We arrived early in Port Douglas and drove quickly through town (its smaller than downtown NA!) and found a spot to each by the waterfront in a local park. We then drove up to the look out point before heading to the hotel. We got there just after 2 for check in and I was smugly proud of myself before discovering that check in was in fact at 4pm! The lovely reception team took our luggage in too storage and even put our supplies in the fridge and sent us down to the pool bar where we had a couple of drinks (rude not too!) and they emailed us when the room was ready. I say "Room" but again the Jabs have doily us with a palatial two bed apartment close to the pool. The sales team from Wyndham gave us a free bottle of wine in exchange for a promise to attend their sales talk (with a chance to get some points back for Rachael and a gift voucher). I've done these talks before with Hilton and ended up losing a wad of cash for no good reason so I'm wary and will just be honest as tell them I'm skint when the time comes!! I had a couple of emails from the tour company for tomorrow reiterating the Adrian's "medical condition" may mean he can't snorkel tomorrow, they would refund the money if that happened, also if I didn't dive and accompanied him, likewise they would reimburse us. We relaxed and had a shower before dinner at the pool restaurant - lamb rack for me and Barramundi for Adrian. We then polished off most of a bottle of wine watching a semi-funny DVD "The House" before bed. Neither of us slept well a bit stressed out about a potential cruise out to the reef where we both sit and watch everyone else enjoy the water as the underwater observatory and semi submersible Trip are complimentary but not accessible and $170 for 19 mins in a helicopter that probably won't take non ambulant people also, so seems a waste.









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