Adventures in Australia: Palm Cove

When launching this blog I undertook to include traveling tips for Australia. Better late than never.

Over Easter I flew up to Palm Cove in Far North Queensland with my Mum, and our friends Andrea and Dave. We had many adventures. Thanks to my Mum for the 1000th time for an amazing traveling experience.

When I speak to friends about travels and like to ask them to isolate the best thing and the worst thing (they can list more than one place/event/person/experience under either heading)
In accordance with this interrogation technique:
The best: the most amazing food, the fine dining, the swimming pools, the proximity to the Daintree Rainforest.
The worst: the development that is going on, especially the monolith that is this.

Restaurants included: Chok Dee , the Reef, NuNu, and the 3rd Restaurant at the Outrigger that had Italian style food (i can't recall the name.) There were a few more we frequented and all were fabulous. This would have to be one of the top eating places in Australia. Divine food.

Places to visit included; Green Island (a day trip to the reef and here is suggested), the Great Barrier Reef (visible from the moon), the Atherton Table Lands, the Sky Rail (fantastic, but don't get off at the top just turn around and go back down, what once may have been a quaint, alternative town is now tourist central), the amazing Daintree Rainforest, (a World Heritage Site.)


It also inspired me to contemplate new destinations in this gigantic country:
1. the Atherton Table Lands
2. The Savannah Way (my family have driven to most places in Australia but we haven't taken this route which takes one from the east-coast to the west-coast from Cairns to Broome, we've gone east to west a few times but lower down the Nullabor-Highway A1 under the national highway classification system)
3. Cape Tribulation
4. return trip to the Daintree Rainforest (this time without a river about to burst it's banks and the fear of crocodile attacks(more on that later) - maybe I'll get to stay here and explore here.

This is pretty nifty: View virtual tour of Reef House Restaurant. This was my favorite restaurant. My friends the Beachs are currently at Palm Cove. I hope they are having a fantastic time.