By the Sea (again, not that I'm complaining!)

It's the name of our hotel too!

Thank you to all those who said stay at Port Douglas and not Cairns! It's a great setting; all the hotels practically hidden behind trees, and a lovely 4 mile beach. Lazy day on the beach yesterday after another treat for N at the Sunday market! Today a snorkel at the reef proper which was wonderful. Amazing coral gardens and more varieties of fish here than at the inner reef. Lots of nemos and his cousins, butterfly fish pairs, lots of parrotfish, large Maori wrasse, trumpet fish to name a few (and to seem like I know what I'm talking about!). On the journey back we saw a beautiful sight; a big shoal of sardine-like fish jumping out of the water, catching the sun and looking like silver shards leaping across the sea!