The first couple of shots were taken en route to Port Douglas from Cairns. (All we saw of Cairns was the airport.) We stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant across the road from Ellis Beach, then pulled over to take in the view from Rex Overlook.In Port Douglas, we stayed at the Nimrod Resort Apartments, located a short, quiet couple of blocks from Four Mile Beach, at the far end, away from downtown Port Douglas. The town's main shopping street is at the base of the near, low hill in the background of the second shot. Resorts and golf course are strung along the beach but hidden, by law, by a strand of greenery and a prohibition on high rise development.
The distance from town afforded numerous invigorating bike rides along the beach, and the weather cooperated nicely--chilly in the mornings and evening, but fine during the day. In fact, it was the coldest it's been in those parts in many years--rare frosts inland--but it didn't bother us much and we never had to change out of our shorts. At a very crowded farmers' market our second day in town I jokingly asked one of the merchants where all the people had come from and he said, without hesitation, "Melbourne and New Zealand"--two places that get pretty cold in the winter. And he was right. Just about everyone that I talked with was from Melbourne or Victoria, the state that Melbourne is in, including a father and son that I played tennis with at our resort, and Sarah I had fun picking out the New Zealanders on our tours, based in part on their penchant for dark, heavy clothing.
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