The Horse and Hound: December 31, 2018 New Years Eve Port Douglas

Today was mostly a travel day. We had a shuttle pick us up at the house and ended up having it all to ourselves, which was great. Our flight was uneventful which is ideal, and our shuttle driver was waiting for us at baggage claim. Another private shuttle, we were scoring!

Ah, to fly in Australia where I can get little bottles of Bundy! Ken tried another new beer but wasn't a fan.

However that’s when we started to get some not ideal news….the Cyclone was turning around and coming back! Argh! Our shuttle driver shared some information about that and I checked my email and sure enough we’d received emails from our fishing charter asking if we wanted to cancel, or if not, if we could go fishing in the Estuary instead of the Reef. And the other email was from the snorkel charter who suggested strongly that we cancel, even assuming they do sail, which they said was only a 50% chance as it was.

We opted to try fishing the Estuary, so we’ll see what happens.

The view towards Port Douglas from the shuttle

We did cancel the snorkel charter. Boo. But when looking at the Coral Sea all you can see is dirty water – it isn’t pretty blue – so we probably won’t be missing much. Now we’ll need to figure out what else we can do on Wednesday.

The view of the apartment pool as seen from our balcony

The living room of our apartment - a 2 bedroom unit

Walking back from the grocery store with the essentials

World War I memorial to the Port Douglas fallen soldiers

We found a nice place for dinner – Rattle and Hum – and walked out to the beach to watch fireworks at 9pm (in case we didn’t make it to midnight) but when our watches said it was 9:20pm and no fireworks we looked it up and turns out they did an 8pm fireworks show, not 9pm. So we walked back towards our apartment and found a really nice bar on the way. Ken had a Sazarac and I had a Good Times 2.0 – both really good craft cocktails.