We have arrived at the first of two caravan parks Lilah picked out because of the awesome water park and pool. The water park was huge. It had one really long slide at the front then other smaller slides in the park, with a huge water dunking bucket. There was also another smaller slide going in to a heated pool, but that slide made us swerve all around the place if we went too fast. We went to the pool everyday.
We also experienced the Port Douglas markets. We ate our way through the markets starting with coconut juice, then passionfruit juice, watermelon juice, Davidson plum juice, sugar cane juice, iced chai, Dutch pancakes, Poms Frits and then settled facing the sea with a delicous feast of Indian curry on roti.
We also visited Mossman Gorge, one of mum’s childhood swimming hole spots. Since then it has a new visitor centre and shuttlebus service run by the local Aboriginal community, a beautiful board walk made from recycled plastic bottles to all the swimming holes, waterfall and lookouts. We spent all morning doing a rainforest walk and wading around in the swimming holes, then finished with a delicious lunch of damper, honey and tea at the Aboriginal Centre café.
The Smiling Nomads 