resort living

dunk island is actually a rainforest island, which means if you tramp through the interior of the island, as we did sort of accidentally, following the inner circuit loop for four hours, that you get to see all sorts of rainforest terrain and trees and little creatures, like frogs, turtles, and lots of brush turkeys. and yes, turkeys can fly. although once they’re up on top of those trees, i’m not sure what comes next.

if you’re interested, here’s a quick simpleviewer gallery of pictures.

the resort we’re staying in is actually quite nice. the room is right on the beach, and from the window you get the full view of the sea with purtaboi island just a couple of km away. it’s not a huge resort, and it seems like there are even less people than capacity, probably since it’s still early summer down here. thus explains the intermittent rain, which actually isn’t bad. it’s warm and humid, and the rain usually only lasts for an hour or so in the morning.

i still can’t figure out why all the toilets in nz/aus have two flush buttons, one large one and one small one. are you supposed to push different buttons depending if you’ve done #1 or #2? this is the kind of stuff that really needs to go into guidebooks.

Posted at November 25, 2004 8:28 PM