Cape Tribulation National Park

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' …

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 …

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
…

We're still in Dougie's Backpackers Resort in our two-man tent with beds, we absolutely love it here, everyone here is super friendly and the nights are really social without being ridiculous, which is a sound adjustment after Cairns which was all a bit crazy and busy. If you ever come to Port Douglas, deffffinitely stay here, most people we've …

Cairns

Leuk stadje, maar het topt Byron Bay niet. Het park is letterlijk 3 meter van ons eerste hostel vandaan. Het zwembad 30 meter. Er spelen live bandjes wordt gebarbecuede. Zwemmen in de zee is uit den boze. Of je wordt opgegeten door krokodillen of kwallen zullen zeer zeker verschrikkelijk leed toebrengen. De box jellyfish is zeker …

So after another day relaxing by the Lagoon yesterday and our Hostel Mad Monday Pub Crawl last night, we were feeling a little delicate this morning as we set off for our Cape Tribulation trip.

We got picked up at 7am by this hilarious guide called Peter who ended every sentence with 'No worries, too easy'. Was a great guide though and …

Today we woke up at around 9 AM. We got ready and packed a bag because we were going Jungle Surfing, on ziplines. It was a 3 hour drive.
We left our room at 10 AM, and called a tzi. We took our taxi to the rental car place, where we go our car. We started driving toward Cape Tribulation, where our tour was. We drove for about 1h30 minutes …

We had more beautiful weather in Cairns today. It makes me excited to be home where it's summer time. Our bus showed up and our tour guide named Pete jumped out. We were a little behind schedule but Meg, Olivia, and I were soon on our way north to the Daintree Rainforest via Cape Tribulation Connections. The bus was big enough for maybe twenty …

After checking out the Daintree Rainforest we went on to Cape Tribulation for a quick beach stop …

... - 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 ...