This peninsula community of less than 5,000 people is over a three-hour plane ride going north from Sydney via Cairns. June and July are winter months. Like Florida, though, the winter months are mild in Queensland drawing people from down south. Why visit Port Douglas? As we think back to our only visit in 2005, there is a certain exotic…
In the 2005 movie, “War of the Worlds,” Dakota Fanning ask Tom Cruise this question, “What is the Capital of Australia?” Tom’s brother apparently knew the answer. I have asked plenty of students that question too. The response is always the same: “Sydney!” It is not. Ironically, the Steven Spielberg movie, “War of the Worlds” came out in 2005. We…