Cape Tribulation National Park

Not sure what we were going to do today, we decided to jump straight back into the car and head north to the Daintree. I'm pretty sure that AJ was chomping at the bit to get there, so who was I to delay his dream any more.

It was about 45mins drive north from our base at Ellis Beach along the Queensland coastline to the barge that takes …

Well, I had a great night sleep, but as typical Aj was awake most of the night as he was freaking out about all the bugs or creatures outside!! He thought he could hear something out on the balcony and at one point he even grabbed my phone and turned it on to check that there was no creatures inside! Hehe!!

After a quick breaky, we packed …

We woke up this morning to another beautiful day in Port Douglas. No sign of the bad weather they have been experiencing over the past couple of months. Blue skies and a gentle breeze. Let's hope that we can continue to be rain free for the time being. Our friends reckon we used to bring rain to wherever we travelled on holidays. I think the tide …

Drove to Cape Tribulation, where the reef meets the rainforest! Really cool. Stopped in Port Douglas on the way up for lunch which is a gorgeous little place. Wouldn't mind hanging out there for a few days.

We made our way to the Daintree Ferry, passing a million warning signs for Cassowary birds....endangered, but in fairness you wouldn' …

Bus interior enthusiasts will want to go on this tour over and over again. The slightly mad looking 4 wheel drive converted truck which picked us up at 7.15am missed out on any suspension upgrade so we had a full workout just by sitting in the seats for the 8 hour bus time of the 11 hour trip. By the time we had picked up about 10 or so couples at …

Port Douglas,

Port Douglas is amazing!! There is so much to do and see here, The Great Barrier Reef, Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation and even a gorgeous beach.

Our first big tour was to the Great Barrier Reef. We were on the Quicksilver Reef Cruises. It was a pretty big boat, a family friendly snorkelling adventure! It took …

I got picked up outside the hostel around 8am for my rainforest trip today. And it is raining a fair bit too. The drive took us through World Heritage Rainforest and along World Heritage Coastline. We passed Ellis Beach, but didn't stop so I couldn't get a photo of the sign.

Our first stop was Port Douglas. We didn't stop in town, but it …

In 2010 Tim and I decided to pack up our business, buy a 4WD and drive around Australia. We literally thought of the idea (initially just a road trip to Western Australia) looked in the Sunday paper for any vans or 4WD's for sale, found one that sounded perfect, bought the car - a 3m high Toyota Troop Carrier decked out with a kitchen, double bed …

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well we were certainly busy bees in Cairns and we loved it! We arrived in Cairns about 1pm after our last nice short greyhound ride. The weather was not too bad and we went for a walk around town. Cairns is a pretty big place and has a nice feel to it. We got chatting to a man in one of the tourist places who gave us loads of …

Great, and long, day today - again beautiful
perfect weather in Queensland, and our guide Shane was great. Went,
briefly to Port Douglas but too early to do more then get Ron a coffee,
then up to the Mossman Gorge for a brief bushwalk - gorgeous and cool
with just the right amount of sun peeking through. Got up close and
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... - funny how that wasn't mentioned when we paid for the trip, only once we were on the boat!! We then drove up to Cape Tribulation beach which was the furthest North we went - here we were really lucky to see Cassowaries and their chicks in the forest. ...

The second part of our Raging Thunder tour was to Cape Tribulation, home to the world's oldest rainforest, according to the Aussies. It was an early start in Cairns, the bus to "Cape Trib" as the 'cool' backpackers call it, picked us up at 8am. Our ...

To maximize our short time in Cairns, we decided to take a bus tour to Daintree National Park/Cape Tribulation to see the rainforest. About 900,000 hectares of rainforest (along with the Great Barrier Reef) spanning Townsville to Cooktown was declared a ...

... had earmarked as possible accommodation - basically because they were the only two in our price range; PK's and the Cape Tribulation Beachhouse. Neither place looked particularly clean or comfortable and didn't justify the $70-110 price tag, especially ...

... stationwagon that only starts after 20 minutes of turning the key. No worries. We hopped in and drovbe north, headed for Cape Tribulation..the drive was along the coast of the Coral sea...unbelievable...hills and rainforesr and cliffs and the bluest blue ...

... e baumschlange, kingfisch, froeschli etc higwiese het. "it smells like hippie" - jedefalls i eusem charre. ufem waeg zum cape tribulation hemer 2 stoeppler mitgno. scho chli atrunke und ganz sicher gstoned sinds hine inegsaesse. de eint, en scho ...

... a walk round the marina, we had planned to stop here the night but changed our minds at the last minute and carried on to Cape Tribulation.  We will come back to Port Douglas as they have a Sunday Market and we have to come via this way to ...

Cape Tribulation is a small village within the Daintree rainforest. That is probably the oldest rainforest in the world; reckoned to be growing continuously for the past 110 million years. The forest, which is a national park, actually runs right down to ...

... de oostkust is zonder je scheel te hoeven betalen aan trips met amfibievoertuigen naar Cape York praktisch onmogelijk. Daarnaast heeft Cape Tribulation ook nog wat historische waarde. Toen Captain Cook (kapitein koek, wat was dat altijd lekker vroeger!) ...

... .The rain did not dampen our spirits and we enjoyed the windy roads with amusing signs as we made our way up to Cape Tribulation. The views from this high point were stunning and even the clouds and rain probably gave it a completely different ...