Daintree National Park

Last weekend, Andy finished the job he was working on and really wanted to do a "roughin' it" type road trip up the east coast of Australia, and as most of my close family and friends know, I'm not really a "roughin' it" type girl. Maybe for a weekend, but certainly not 4 weeks. So, we came up with the perfect solution: Andy would do the road trip …

Today the guide discussed how the aborginals may have survived. He cut up local fruits (all now grown here but were not indigenous...came from Mexico and Carribean). Then he found us a nest of green ants and said if you lick their bums you get a healthy dose of Vitamin C. He demonstated. He did not look any healthier but the ant sure was smiling. …

Today was a packed day, very different to the lazy day yesterday. In the morning we went to Daintree Village on the crocodile cruise. We only got to see one crocodile, and a dead sea snake, but you could see air surfacing maybe from others. Then to the Alexandra Range lookout where we could see Cairns right in the distance. After we went on a …

After two and a half months it was time to leave Asia, it was sad to be leaving such an amazing place where we had become so comfortable and at home, but we were taking with us so many good memories and made lots of new friends. Our flight left Singapore at 10:10pm and headed over Borneo towards Australia. We had a 2 hour wait in a transit lounge …

On day 5 of their trip Down Under, President Obama and his family took a short drive from Cairns to Daintree National Park. There they went hiking in the park and went on a river cruise. While hiking, the family admired the rainforest which was teaming with life with a wide array of fauna from cassowaries to swamp wallabies. The river cruise was …

... Curtain Fig', near Yungaburra, then took a walk around Lake Barrine, one of two beautiful volcanic lakes in the Crater Lakes National Park. We picnicked beside its twin, Lake Eacham, later in the afternoon. Both lakes have incredibly blue, clear water ...

... creeping up on us we decide the car is the safest place. We continued our exploration by moving onto the Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation. On approaching Daintree River where we would make a ferry crossing we saw a sign advertising Bruce ...

... . Needless to say we didn't get to see the snakes we have been searching for all the way around Australia. We spent two nights camping in a national park campsite just outside the village of Cape Trib, called Noah's Beach. It was a great spot where we ...

   For the last little trip out of Cairns Tarrah and I went up to Cape Tribulation in the Daintree national park.  Apparently it is the oldest rainforest in the world and it looks pretty much the same as it might have millions of years ago ...

... through the canopy. The next day we awoke early and set off to Mossman Gorge, which is on the southern side of the Daintree National Park. On the way we stopped to take a photo of a Cassowary roadsign and a couple of minutes later as I looked in my ...

... fameuse Holden Comodorre, mais sa ne sert à rien d'avoir un moteur de 3,6 litres pour rouler a du 100. Direction Daintree national park. C'est de toute beauté ces collines à la forêt tropicale qui descend au bord de plage, mangrove, cascades, fleurs ...

... then across the ferry towards Cape Tribulation. On the way we stopped at Gindalba Boardwalk, which winds part way through the Daintree National Park. Even though it was raining we decided (i.e. forced the kids) to do the board walk. I will post ...

... expectations I may have had for the past two days were absolutely blown out of the water.  Cape Tribulation and the Daintree National Park make up one of the most unique and beautiful places I have ever been fortunate enough to visit.  To ...

... After taking the Captain Cook Highway along the coast, which is actually a World Heritage section of road, we reached the Daintree National Park. This is the oldest rainforest in the world and is the only place where two World Heritage sites meet - ...

... of just drove around with not much to do.   It was our own fault - we forgot to get the Daintree National Park information leaflet from the internet, and the "tourist information" centres did nothing but sell tours, so didn't know about decent ...