5/16/2008 Sunrise over the Pacific and More...

6:34 Am and I was the only one up! I snapped a few pics then enjoyed the serenity of it all, listening to the ocean, drinking coffee and reading until everyone else got up and around. After a big breakfast we headed to Port Douglas to make arrangements for our Reef Snorkeling Trip. On our way hope we sent to the Mossman Gorge after first having lunch at the old hotel/pub in Mossman in their beer garden. The Gorge was a beautiful walking trail, over bridges and walkways, past swimming holes and back again. That night we were greeted "up close and personal" for the first time by the curlew's, mainly nocturnal bush dwelling wader who's voice is a drawn out mournful "wer - looooo" sounding more like an shreik or a scream. They even came close to the deck to get the crackers we had thrown to them. Very entertaining......