Port Douglas is not at all as I expected. It is smaller and somehow more touristy than anticipated. Our apartment is very nice-set in palm trees and surrounded by pools. Even in the bleak mid-winter, Port Douglas is 30°C, making me very grateful for air conditioning!
We spent our first day exploring the Sunday markets in Port. The market stalls are lovely. A condition of having a stall is that the produce has to be sourced locally and run by local people. It was a highly colourful affair- lots of fresh fruit and locally made clothes and jeweler. Afterwards, we wandered to the four mile beach, which actually isn’t four miles long. It is gloriously sandy with a good surf. I realized that jumping through the waves is fun whether you are five or fifty! Unfortunately, sunburn hurts just as much, and I was suitably annoyed that I had managed to burn wearing factor 30 suncream and only being exposed to the sun for an hour.
Dinner that night was at Fins, a restaurant just up the road from our hotel. I had the seafood linguine, which included ‘bugs’. Bugs are not rainforest creatures, but are a cross between a langoustine and a crayfish. They are yummy! G had the vegetarian laksa with chilli jam, which was also very good.
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