Palm Cove 6th to 10th of April

Today my host parents took Diego and me to one of their apartments in Palm Cove. It is a beautiful apartment five minutes by foot from the beach. During the night we saw small kangaroos and at 5:30 in the morning we went to see the beautiful sunrise.

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