Palm Cove

To welcome Emmanuelle I had booked flights to Cairns (northern Queensland) and then a car to go to a resort a bit further up the coast. After all Emma had only been travelling for 36 hours, so I thought we'd fly some more.

I got the best room in the Hotel, after all 'noblesse oblige'. Palm cove is no more than a collection of resorts by the sea. The Pacific Ocean stretches for as far as the eye can see and the palm trees by the beach make it very nice place for long beach walks. The only thing missing is truly blue water, it has a grey color to it.

Apparently Palm Cove is Marriage central: walking down the beach at sun set we spotted 5 couples get their marriage pictures taken on the beach. (a picture perfect beach, I'd say).

We hired a car, and drove around a bit. Basically the surroundings are tropical forest and beach. It has some history fro a country where nothing is older than 2 centuries. The locals died en masse last century when they tried to create a long railway line between Cairns and the more northern cities. The death toll was so high, that the powers that be decided not to tempt fate and stopped the construction of the rail way at Kundura.