I heard rain during the night. It had stopped by the time we got up though. After a quick shower we found a place for some breakfast. It was then threatening to rain – the clouds were pretty dark – so we returned to the room to get our rain coats and umbrellas in a back pack, and then went to the market.

The market was quite large, and very popular. We slowly walked around it. The most impressive part was seeing somebody glass-blowing some small sculptures. Other than that it was all hippy clothes, crocodile teeth, candles and food. Towards the end it started to rain, and we were thankful we had gone to the hotel first! We made our way back through town, stopping off at the chocolate shop so Kaoru could get a souvenir for work, since another work-colleague had been to Port Douglas a while ago and had bought some (chocolate covered coffee beans), and then back to the room.

After doing our teeth, we had a siesta, and then headed out to lunch a bit after 12. We went to a nearby “cafe and bookshop by day, mexican by night”. Lunch was a quiche and an apple slice, which we shared both of. Then it was time for some serious exercise. So we walked back down to the markets, and the reverse of our walk yesterday. It was amazing how different it looked going the other way!

We were a little more prepared today, and had our own water bottle. I still stopped at the fountain and had a good drink, and we made a detour to another lookout, which unfortunately wasn’t a circuit so we had to walk back down to the track to continue. Once we got to the place where we started yesterday, we kept going down to the beach.

We walked along for a bit – there were lots of crab-holes! We saw a trail go off to the right and wandered up there, to find the surf club. It was about 2.40, and happy hour starts at 3 so we decided to walk up a bit further, and then come back, rather than stop for a drink now. So on we went, and had to decide how we were going to get out. We found another trail off to the right, and ended up on golf course for one of the resorts! We walked through and around it like we belonged, and eventually managed to find the gate to get out. It didn’t have a pedestrian gate, but we pressed the button to open the car gate, and made it out without being noticed.

I had a look at the maps to work out where exactly we were – well, we had come down quite a way! So back in to Port Douglas we walked, recognising a number of the places we saw on our first drive in to town. We turned off to the left and saw the petrol station that had been pointed out to us yesterday, as the one where all the boats fill up. Another 10 minutes or so, and we made it to the Yacht club where we had dinner last night, and finally we were at Hemmingways Brewery for a much deserved beer, about 3.30. Kaoru had the alcoholic ginger beer which was quite nice, and I had a West Coast IPA. It started to rain while we were there, but luckily we had picked a table undercover. Some people who arrived the same time as us weren’t so lucky, so they had to relocate.

Once the rain had subsided we walked back to our hotel, killed 30 minutes or so, and then went back in to town for dinner. We went to the pub tonight, and I just had a simple parma, and Kaoru had a seafood linguini. There was a band but we were far enough away to enjoy it as background music.

We went home via the ice cream shop near us. We had been waiting for the right time to go in there, as they had lots of awards. It was a delicious ice cream cone, and a great way to finish the night. We returned to the hotel, where we watched some TV before going to bed.