Port Douglas, Australia

We spent most of our trip in Port Douglas, which is right by the Great Barrier Reef. It was a cute little town and seriously beautiful. The Ocean was amazing and I loved spending time by it every day. We had pretty good weather while we were there. It is winter over in Australia now so it was a little cooler then usual. Sydney was a lot colder since it is further south but Port Douglas was much warmer. Below is the resort we stayed at while we were there. We didn't spend much time at it since we were always out doing stuff but it was really nice and relaxing. This just wasn't a 'relax by the pool' kind of trip for us! :)

This was the harbor right outside of the main strip of Port Douglas and here are a few pictures of the town area.

We saw a couple getting married at this old church by the beach

They drive on the other side of the road there and you drive on the other side of the car. And the car's are all stick shifts so Guy had to figure out how to do that with his left hand. Don't ask me how he did it, I never could have!! But really by the end of our trip, he had it down and it didn't take quite as much thought. When he first started we would sit and think out loud which way he had to turn cause it just so confusing! And, since Port Douglas was so small they just had a lot of roundabouts instead of stoplights so they were hard to do. We were glad when there was a car in front of us so we could just follow them!

This was our awesome ride that we rented! I could not get used to getting in on the other side of the car. I would always go to the 'driver side' and Guy make fun of me and ask if I was planning on driving this time! And it was hard when we were crossing a street cause we would look both ways the way we do in the U.S. when really the cars were coming the opposite ways.

The ocean my first night there. It was breathtaking! I am definately getting excited to live by an ocean soon. To me there is just nothing more relaxing!

Food was SOOO expensive over there. We were shocked by it and were way too cheap to be spending that much on food. Seriously, just a regular sized candy bar was like $4.00. And for me to get my diet coke fix, it would cost me about the same for just one can.  Outrageous! The cheapest food we could find was at Hungry Jacks, same as Burger King here. I really hate Burger King but endured it for a meal out of hunger! In Port Douglas, there was no fast food chains or anything so we had to spend way more on food then planned.

We went to the grocery store and laughed at all the foods that we had that were just named other things. But really, the grocery store was filled with brands we didn't know of and I decided I could never leave the U.S. because I would miss our food. We decided if we both lived in Australia we would both be really skinny because we wouldn't be able to afford to eat!

We ate pizza a lot because we could share it easily. This is me on my first night there after my long flights. It was funny because since it was winter over there, it would get dark at 6:00 and literally the whole town would shut down except for all the bars. So, that first night we went home and I laid on the bed and literally fell asleep in 5 seconds. I did this every night for the first few nights and Guy who was already used to the 15 hour time change, would just hang out by himself until he got tired. So I would wake up and find like all our seashells cleaned and in rows by the sink and it would make me laugh. But I got used to the time change eventually...it was the coming back to Texas time that almost killed me!

Lots more pictures to come....