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Cape Tribulation Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cape Tribulation, Australia
Cape Tribulation
This is a top pick! Despite my tour guide's original omission from our proposed route, I thought one of the few places in the world where tropical rainforest meets the sea was worth a gander! Only accessible from the south by a cable ferry, Sophie got straight into the ...
Cape Tribulation
This is a top pick! ... windows, contained toilet, anything really meaning that you'd be at the mercy of all manner of bugs and things. We declined and found Cape Tribulation Camping where we rented a safari tent for the night. It worked out well as it was on the beach, and ...
Cape Tribulation
This is a top pick! Off on a two night trip to Cape Tribulation, north of Cairns. We stay at Ferntree resort, a very swish hotel that has been transformed into a hostel to cater for the backpackers. On arrival we headed down to the beach where we invented a new game ...
Breakfast with cassowaries
This is a top pick! ... to be a big draw to the Cairns birdwing butterfly. This beautiful black and green creature is the largest butterfly in Australia. The ones we saw were happily flitting from bloom to bloom sipping nectar, and occasionally squabbling with the local honey ...
Crumbs From Your Table
This is a top pick! Tuesday 23rd November 2004 Road trip time! - hire a car, along with Dirk & Marco, to go to Cape Tribulation and the Atherton Tablelands. Relatively cheap car - AU$60 a day, though with thumping AU$1500 excess on insurance. I drive first day - havent ...
Exploring the Tablelands and the Cape
This is a top pick! ... - 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. ...
Where Rainforest meets the Reef...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Reef and the Rainforest
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Australia - Cape Tribulation
This is a top pick! ... we 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 ...
Blast Off
This is a top pick! ... as I thought it might be and we made our way north along the coast almost incident free until we arrived in the heart of Cape Tribulation. Along the way we learned that it was something of an obligation to wave at anyone else we saw driving a Spaceship, ...
Where the rainforest meets the reef
This is a top pick! ... Nick flying home I was determined to keep busy, so booked myself up on lots of activities straight away - starting with 3 days at Cape Tribulation, north of Cairns in the rainforest. We left Cairns early in the morning and started the drive up into the ...
Cape Tribulation
This is a top pick! ... was knowledgeable about the rainforest and the flora and fauna we could see. You could organise your own bus up without the tour. Cape Trib is a bit quiet and the overcast weather didn't help but me and an intrepid group of fellow backpackers tried our ...
Cape Tribulation
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Cape Trib in our entry from Cairns, Australia entitled 'Coast to Coast to Coast'. Cheers, K & ...
(To the) rainforest
This is a top pick! ... . What if they sink? This one does not. We cruise around for a place to stay. The tourist information is helpful! In Cape Tribulation Beach house resort, there is wireless, at a price of course. It is the same place I stayed before!!! Remember, ...
Trials and Tribulations
... being scratched. When you would scratch its stomach it would grab on to your arm and rub its head on your arm. After this we went to Cape Tribulation Beach for lunch. It was nice but you couldn't go in the water because of the stringers and the ...
Cape Trib and the Great Barrier Reef
... 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 ...
Rainforest!
In the rainforest in cape trib and no suprise its pissing down. Beautifull place with awesome wildlife. Dived on the reaf and sore crocs, wicked ...
Cape Tribulation
... after I got back from the dive boat, really early in the morning, I hopped on a bus/tour up to the Daintree Rain Forest and Cape Tribulation. I took the bus up to the cape one day (stopping along the way to various sights), stayed a night in cape trib (at ...
daintree national park & cape tribulation
... 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 chli ...
Cape Tribulation and Port Douglas
... wunderschoener Straende, dem aeltesten Regenwald der Erde und Krokodilen. Wir fanden einen schoenen Campingplatz am Strand in Cape Tribulation und verbrachten zwei schoene Tage dort am Strand unter Kokusnuss palmen und Baum Farnen. Zurueck richtung ...
Cape Tribulation
26/01/2009 Cape Trib Day One. We got picked up from our hostel at 8am and starrted on the journey up to Cape Tribulation, a Wet Tropics Wourld Heritage Area. On they Way up we stopped off at the Daintree River. A lot of sugar and tea is grown in the ...
Jungle Surfing
The Daintree Rainforest has many types of trees and plants. We walked to a platform, where we would take the zip line to a second platform. On this short trek, we passed more species of plants than we would pass in walking the whole of North ...
Cape Tribulation
Cape Tribulation One day during my stay in Port Douglas, I headed off for a drive to Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest. The drive was amazing, twisting and turning through the rainforest, much of the way not more than 40 km/ph. I had to cross ...
The start of my journey down the east coast
... is crazy at the weekend - its a backpacker bonanza!)I ventured northwards to check out the rainforest and the Daintree River in Cape Tribulation. I did a boat trip on the Daintree river where I got to see a crocodile - it was massive and quite ...
Being A Tourist - Day 12
... endangered and horribly vicious bird which inhabits the Daintree but we'd seen one a few days previous right outside our cabin at Cape Trib Beach House. Here's me demonstrating the correct way to act when confronted by one of these dangerous birds. You're ...
Cape Tribulation&Tablelands
Cape Tribulation isch ca 300 km nördlech vo Cairns. äs het par schöni sandstränd wo aber leider nid zum badä si wüus salzwasser krokodil het. ...
Rainforest Camping, Stick Insects, Deserted Beach
BEAUTIFUL AMAZING LUSH tropical Rainforest. The Daintree is apparently the oldest rainforest in the world and its awesome. We camped at a lovely bush camp called Noahs Beach, literally 30 secs walk an your on the beach, pretty much private to the ...
Jungle Jo
... at least 50 years younger. Sustained on steak, we then took off for the real reason we were there - to get to Cape Trib. Cape Tribulation was apparently named as such by Christopher Columbus because he stumbled upon the stunning bay at a time when his ...
