Day Six...20th August, Our Last Day

Our last day. We got up at 8 am, showered and had breakfast. Our activity today was the 40 minute scenic flight over the he Great Barrier Reef.

We arrived at Daintree air services at 9.15am, we joined the other 5 passengers in the waiting room to wait for the pilot to return with the previous passengers. During that time, we had a safety information briefing by one of the other pilots. We put on our safety vests around our waist. (See separate post

Our pilot, Brayden, came in and introduced himself, then lead us to the aircraft. We entered the plane and took our seats, I was behind the pilot, we all had window seats.

Once in the air, we headed out over various parts of the barrier reef, it was spectacular, the colour of the ocean was amazing.

The pilot was very informative, he gave us a commentary about The Great Barrier Reef's eco system, he also pointed out the natural landmarks. We flew over Green island, then over Oyster and Arlington Reef, Vlasoff Reef, Michaelmas Reef, Upolu Cay, Cape Grafton, False Cape, Double Island and Palm Cove before landing at Cairns airport, coming in from the direction of Yorkeys knob.

We disembarked and the pilot asked if anyone wanted photos beside the plane, which we all took him up on, that was our adventure done for the day.

We then headed out to Port Douglas again, Scott wanted to have lunch at Cafe Fresq for one last time. We arrived in Port Douglas at 12pm, it was extremely busy as it was Sunday, and market day.

We strolled through the market before wandering around the sea front taking photos.

We then went back to the love lock heart so I could get more photos.

We returned to the market and bought a fresh drinking coconut, the guy used a huge machete to open the coconuts!

Once we had finished the coconut water, we return to the stall and the man cut it open and scooped out the coconut flesh so we could eat it.

We walked back through the town to Cafe Fresq for lunch, we ordered different things this time round, I had 12 hour beef brisket Rogan Josh taco, Scott had the same but on a sandwich, we also ordered a side of hand cut chips.

We had a walk around town to let our lunch settle 😄 before heading back on the hour drive to Cairns, where we passed some flames at the side of the road which we were surprised that people were just nonchalantly driving past the flames and there were no fire engines attending it!

We got some packing done before having a very light tea 😉

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