Port Douglas – 1 Car Hire, 2 Bags, 2 Kids, 2 Parents and a Blissful Break
September 30th, 2009
Weathermen were redundant for our week in Port Douglas. I mean, how difficult can it be to forecast blue skies and 30 degrees? Sheer and utter bliss. For that’s the only way to describe our week in September up North.
Departing a grey overcast Melbourne and with the obligatory (and brief) Sydney stop-over we arrived into Cairns to find the airport in a somewhat chaotic state with extensive renovations underway. To be fair looking at the impressive Qantas check-in area the chaos will be worth enduring.
We’d booked ahead through DriveNow (no surprise there!) and organised an Avis Corolla car [...]






