Sunday, June 6, 2010

So what do you do all day?

Hi all, thought you would like to see some photos of our fun... especially since our days are numbered.


Kate is a crocodile and Mira is the box jelly fish.

We are overlooking the 'stinger net' - the protective net that is going to save us from the jellyfish.

We entered in the sandcastle competition - this is our rendition of a salty croc... We wrote in the sand "A Yukon Family Saltwater Crocodile" and the judge thought we were the Yukon Family - like the Smith or Jones Family. We didn't place.

Happy to be on the beach?

Watch out for stingers.

Catching hermit crabs on the beach.

We went up to Cape Tribulation. It is in the Daintree Rainforest. The rainforest comes right down to the sea. It has tons of birds and snakes... look it up.

Kate beside the 12 meter marker for the flooding that takes place in this area.

We did do a croc tour and no, we didn't do any swimming.

Here is old salty.

Along the road to Cape Tribulation, there are lots of warnings about Cassowary crossings. These are huge birds with a horn on their head. We didn't see any in the wild but we saw some on our day in the Rainforest Habitat.

Watch out for these critters.

Kate and the vegetation.

The gang just goofing around.

Take a careful look at this photo. Way back in the back you can see some young woman with her top off and Kate is doing the same :)

Enjoying the sand and sun.

Kate.

Yep, we are here too.

So when you spend two weeks in a town of 3000, you have to look for something fun to do. So we went to the cane toad races at the bar. These toads were brought into Australia to control the Cane Beetle but oops, the cane beetles are found at the top of the sugar cane and the toads don't jump that high. So they have billions of these pests and nothing to kill'em. But it does make for entertaining racing. Kate's ticket was pulled so she encouraged her toad named Fat Bastard. She placed 4th. She did not kiss it... asked mom to do that!

Kate getting Fat Bastard to jump.


End of the race.

That is all from Port Douglas, Queensland for now. cheers. s

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