Daintree River Cruise

The bus took me to the major beach in Cape Trib....this is where the day trippers had lunch and were hanging out for an hour. I joined them for 15 minutes. I remember this beach being really big and soft (for OZ that is)...there were palm trees in the background and the tides rolled in long, smooth and steady. I took a few pics to remember it and …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

Cairns was my hub for doing fantastic tours such as snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef and exploring the Daintree Rainforest. Please check out my photos of my time in and around Cairns …

The alarm goes off and there's reef to be seen, so there's a whole lot of leaping out of bed going on this fine Wednesday morning. Erin dispatches her manservant to the front porch to collect her swimmers only to discover...they'd been stolen in the night! Someone had walked through the bit of rainforest in the back garden and souvenired Erin's …

Cape Tribulation is one of the oldest rainforests in the world. It was named by Captain Cook in 1770 after he crashed his boat there. It has lots of wildlife there including snakes and the endangered cassowary. Cassowaries are a giant colourful, flightless bird a bit like an ostrich that eats fruit from the trees and poo the seeds out whole so if …

Alle sagen, dass man die Ostkueste Australiens am besten mit einem eigenen Auto bereist und nachdem wir die Preise fuer den Bus und die Hostels mit einem eigenen Van verglichen haben, haben wir uns auch fuer einen Van entschieden. In unserem Chubby konnten wir reisen, kochen und schlafen und das oft mit einem "Zimmer" mit Meerblick. Ausserdem hat …

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 …

We got the bus to Port Douglas and the Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary which had some interesting stuff in it. Like a Cassowary which is a huge native bird that will apparently head-butt you if you see one in the wild with their big colourful helmet looking heads. Also the famous laughing kookaburras, some parrots, an ugly python, lots of …

... north of Cairns is pretty impressive as you drive into the rainforests on the peninsular. Our first stop was the wildlife river cruise on the Daintree River where we saw two/three swimming crocs but it was no way near as exciting as the jumping crocs ...

... - it looked quite like New Zealand. We carried on further North to the Daintree river, where we boarded our boat for an hour river cruise- it looked almost like a paddle boat, but it had a motor (!) We were warned that we probably wouldnt see any ...

... really small old ferry that runs across on giant cables. Crazy. We didn't see any crocs and didn't have time to do a river cruise for crocs. I didn't care much about seeing them but I know Jason wanted to. Next time :) Cape tribulation was pretty ...

Entry containing 17 photos titled: no swimming :), on the way to the boat, the vessel, the view, the daintree river, lololo, a crocodile, crocodile in the water , lala, next crocodile, Me :), next one, huge crocodile, sunset, arrrrghhhh!!!!, here we are :)

... , sapote, ginger wines and a couple of ports. Great, we are stocked up to enjoy these later on. We signed up for a Daintree River cruise, a small solar powered boat taking us around in search of crocs, or "salties" as they call them here, and other local ...

... butterfly species and 18% of Australia’s bird species. This is all within land that is only 1200 square kms. After our exciting river cruise, we had time to stop for ice cream at the Daintree Rainforest Ice Cream Co.  We got to try four ...

... situated along the Daintree River with the mountains as an amazing backdrop. James and Daniel were enthusiastic to do a Daintree River Cruise were the wildlife is abundant with an emphasis on crocodile spotting even after being all crocodiled out in WA ...

... accompanied and educated us on the Marrdja Botanical walk, which included mud flats and mangrove trees. We then went on a Daintree River Cruise with a botanist, and searched for and spotted a couple of crocodiles.  You can see them in the pictures ...

... family admired the rainforest which was teaming with life with a wide array of fauna from cassowaries to swamp wallabies. The river cruise was especially interesting as crocodiles were spotted waiting for prey along the river bank. The Obama family ...

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