It's hard to determine whether we love this place so much b/c of the great town, beautiful rainforest, and gorgeous beaches, or if it's the AMAZING 5 star resort we're staying at.  I think it's probably a combination of both.  Either way, we switched our plans of staying 3 nights Port Douglas/3 nights Cairns to 5 nights in PD/1 night in Cairns, so that says a lot right there.

The Sea Temple Resort where we're staying is one of the nicest places we've ever been.  The thing that makes this place so great primarily has to do with the wonderful, insanely large pool and wrap-around lagoon that circles the entire resort.  This place is so trpoical and lush, and the swim out pool from our unit is fabulous.  The service and staff at the resort leave's nothing to be desired, but the spectacular setting makes up for that.

Our time in PD has been a combo of a lot of things including some exploration, relaxation, fun and frustration.  Jason pretty much summed up a lot of our adventures in the previous journal entry, which is where we did the most of our exploration. 

Relaxation just seems to come naturally in tropical, resorty places, and we've probably spent more time in the pool then anywhere else these past 5 days.  The intense heat and humidity also has made us kind of lazy, leading naturally to lots of lounging around and hanging out.

Fun is the first thing that comes to mind when I think about our wild night on the town with Eddie and Benrnadette, our new Irish friends who we met on the Daintree trip.  Although Port Douglas is not the most happening town, we managed to have a blast with these two -- from dinner and lots of wine at Mango Jam, to introducing us to Magners Irish Cider at Paddy's Irish pub, to ending the night at Fluid night club (even though we were the only people in the bumping place!)  This was definitely a night to remember.  We just hope they managed to catch their 5am flight out of Cairns the next day.

The frustration part comes in about this time yesterday when Jason realized his wallet was gone.  Now part of the reason we had extended our time here in PD was Jason needed to do a re-install on his computer and figured a nice comfortable resort was a great place to do it (considering how much time it could take.)  That plan went out the door since his 4 gig USB drive was in his wallet and that was MIA.  Although we could have both freaked out over this situation, I think we handled it very calmy - Jason got on the phone and cancelled all his CC's and then tried to figure out another plan for the reinstall.  We've actually just chalked it up at this point to a good life lesson of learning how to stay cool, calm and collected in stressfull situations. 

We have just one night left here in Port Douglas, since we're taking off for Cairns in the morning.  There's no doubt we'll miss this place, but know we still have a lot more adventure ahead of us.