Today we visited the Port Douglas Rainforest Habitat in which we saw plenty of different types of native birds, koalas, wallabies, kangaroos and crocodiles. I was quite impressed at the constant shrieking within the enclosures, the large storks, the tree kangaroo mum & baby, the emu walking around the grounds, the huge pelicans and how the wallabies were quite happy to come up quite close and feed out of our hands. Harri really liked the moluccan black parrots, the colourful lori parakeets and was busy gathering plenty of material for his next greenhouse project. They also had a koala and reptile handling, so I got my photo taken while holding a koala (felt slightly commercial, but an experience nonetheless).
We spent the rest of the afternoon with our new friend Virginia relaxing in at a beachside cafe in Port Douglas, enjoying a lovely lunch of fresh local prawns and "bugs" (the local crab/shrimp). Port Douglas seemed like a contradiction. On the one hand it was definitely smaller and more exclusive than Cairns (judging by the holiday resorts and exclusive brand clothing stores), but it also had a more relaxed vibe about it.
On the way back we got a nice eyeful of the native bats hanging on a tree. We have seen these fly across our hotel every evening at exactly 6:15pm, migrating from their daytime sleeping posts to their night-time feeding locations, the neighbouring fruit farms/trees. Very impressive to see and hear a huge flock of big bats fly over your head - what a racket!
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