Good news, we really like Turtle Cove! It is a small resort with it's own private beach (well, two beaches) set just off the main highway.between Cairns and Port Douglas. We have a massive room that opens onto an open deck looking across the lawn to the beach and the Coral Sea! We are being lulled to sleep by the sound of the surf each night and waking to the Sun rising over the ocean.
It is a small resort with just 30 rooms but there is a pool, Jacuzzi, restaurant and bar. Everyone is very friendly and they all go out of their way to make us very welcome. It doesn't feel like we are in a hotel at all, more like we are guests at a private house party. If we ever get to this area again I would definitely want to stay here.
For the first two days we just lay about on the beach chairs tryinq to gather our strength after all the traveling we have done. It has been great seeing the desert and doing the walks but we we're both utterly exhausted, so the rest was needed. We had arranged to collect a car from Port Douglas on Saturday, got a lift there from the hotel but when we got to the office we realised that we had left our Driving Licences behind. Fortunately there is plenty to do in the town, so we explored before catching a bus back to a welcome swim in the ocean.
We went back on the Sunday (another lift from the ever resourceful and friendly staff at the Cove), and this time we went on a short boat trip up the creek and we saw some crocodiles on the banks sunbathing. One was enormous and would have been able to make a hundred handbags!
Time for lunch, so we went to the Hogs Breath Cafe (no really) and had Hotpot (yes, in the Tropics!)
After that we went on a steam train to the sugar cane fields that had been restored by volunteers. We we're told that the trip would last for an hour and we expected to travel quite a distance but actually it just went very slowly! All good fun though and we had a great time.
More later...
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