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Daintree Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Daintree, Australia
Hanging with the locals
... are all so friendly, had a good chat with my neighbours in the dorm next door, its nice to see a different side of australia other than backpackers spots, beaches and parties. times up now so will have to write more later. im off to new zeland ...
Exploring the northeast
I took a day trip north of Cairns to the Daintree and Cape Tribulation area. Started the morning off with a boat ride on the Daintree River where I got to see lots of wildlife-flying fox bats, green frogs and snakes that blended in well ...
La remontée
... , la 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, ...
Another Trip to the Daintree
... Also we went to Thorton beach and a lookout over Mt Alexandrer that was really pretty 3. and we went on a Crocodile cruise down the Daintree river it took 90 minutes on the way up the river we didn't see any crocodiles but with about 10 minutes to go ...
Daintree Village
... and 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 ...
Hiking into the Clouds
... two years away from home. Some of it has to do with the ability for the Europeans to get work visas in Australia (and throughout Europe). It's just very eye opening as to how much more prevalent international travel is to those in other parts ...
PORT DOUGLAS
AUSTRALIA DAY!!! I got back to Port the previous evening and went into town with Pete to sink a few scooners and watch 'The Swinging Allycats' do their thing at one of the local bars. On friday morning we got up at 05.30 to get down to the ...
Croc Spotting
From one adventure to the next! We headed to the Daintree River, where we floated down the river searching for crocodiles. Along the banks are mangroves. We saw the beautiful Ulysses Butterfly, the fastest butterfly in the world! We ...
Der Weg nach Norden - "Regen"- Wald
... aufhörte. Nach einer gefühlten Ewigkeit kamen wir zu Daintree-River also dem Fluss der durch eine Seil-Fähre den Nationalpark Daintree von der Aussenwelt trennt. Es waren kaum Autos mit uns auf der Fähre und die Überfahrt dauerte nur wenige Minuten. ...
Rainforest and Waterfalls!
Entry Picture Link: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/ThreeVagabonds/UncleBriansTourTheGreatBarrierReef On a rainy and cold Monday, August 25 we woke up at 7 a.m. and hopped on Uncle Brian's Tour Bus. "Cousin Paul" was our tour guide/driver for the day. ...
PORT DOUGLAS
On Saturday I headed towards Cairns to Hartley's Creek Crocodile Farm followed by a spin to the Barron Falls near Kerunda, but today was a day I'd been looking forward to for several years - Diving on the Great Barrier Reef! I got up at 07.00 on ...
Great Barrier Reef / World Herritage Rain Forest
... After the morning tour our guide dropped us off at our accommodation. I stayed in a chilled out, hippyish, backpacker's resort in the Daintree rain forest. I paid a little extra for a nocturnal animal sighting trek in the middle of the night. Didn't see a ...
Living in the jungle
After spending about ten days in Cairns we drove further up North, where we went on a crocodille cruise on Daintree River. It was really fun and we spotted a few crocs - both tiny and medium size, but unfortunately not a really big one. After that we ...
Hunting the Cassowary!
... of the jungle and all the water comes form an underground spring! After putting my bag in the tent, H and I went to the Daintree Discovery Centre, which was not far away. Here they have a aerial walkway and a five story tower which you can climb and ...
Daintree National Park
... a rock formation next to the pool, which she did very well. Not bad for someone who could barely swim before she came to Australia. There was also a large Frog in the bottom of the pool, so I swam around with him before helping him get out of ...
Rainforest, Crocs and Beach
... a nice river that ran through a clearing of the rainforest- 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 ...
Daintree - amazing rainforest
... . After we came back Kasha was there already and we drove to Dubuji Boardwalk. Dubuji is one of the many boardwalks in Daintree. It was pretty long (like for a boarwalk), approximately 1.2 km. It was meandering through the rainforest with some creek ...
The Waterfall Circuit, cut short
We decided that we didn't want to taz around after a long drive to see all three waterfalls on the 'circuit'. Instead we went to 'Yungaburra' for a beautiful thickshake. Paul had a steak pie and was complimented by the ladies who worked there on his ...
Cairns beaches,Port Douglas,Daintree National Park
... a while enjoying the beauty of the place. The reason its called Cape Tribulation is because James Cooks ship that first discovered Australia ran aground on the reef here, he had so many problems he called it tribulation. We then ...
Watch out for Crocs!
We arose early and caught a crocodile spotting boat the 'Solar Whisper'. The Daintree is infested with crocs, sharks and stingrays thrown in for good measure. So we decided not to go for a swim. Neville, our tour guide, was very softly spoken. His lilting ...
Where the rainforest meets the Barrier Reef!!
... way back - not bad for endangered species living deep in the rainforest. Still kept glancing up for the orangs though. The thing with daintree and the rainforests here is that you don't actually see much wildlife - you can hear things but don't spot much. ...
Nice little beach
Stopped here on the way back to Cairns to have a look at the beach. Was a pretty nice beach but as we tried to leave there was a sneaky little Jack Russle Pup in the way. When Elina got out to move it on it jumped in the car. Was a good laugh. ...
Daintree National Park
We rented a car and made the 75 mile (110km) fairly hard core driving north to where the rainforest meets the reef "Daintree National Park," which holds one of the best view points- Cape Tribulation. The park is only accessible via a cable ferry which ...
Madness in the Mangroves
... of a reef began in 1928. Another highlight was the Melbourne Cup, a very hyped horse race, and as someone put it "Australia's Superbowl" (let's just say I'm glad we have the superbowl..) We watched the race in the very posh Port Douglas, and then did a ...
DAY 207 - PORT DOUGLAS TO WONGA BEACH - BOUNCE
... as stunning as we thought the beaches would be along this stretch of coast. We have seen far better beaches in other parts of Australia. Next we drove down the road to Mossman and to the Mossman Gorge which is part of Daintree National Park. We parked up ...
Billy Teas
We did a day trip to Daintree Rainforest/ Cape Tribulation with Billy Tea Safaris and had a lovely guide. We headed down the scenic coastal drive and saw Snapper Island, looks like a crocodile. We did a walk through rainforest and a short ...
Rainforest...that sounds wet!
We got our hands on a really good deal for a rental car...and boy was she a beauty!!! A circa 1990 corolla....named "rolla"....she was great...we wanted to get to the oldest rainforest (prehistoric) so this was our chance...we drove the coast line and ...
DAY 208 - WONGA BEACH - LINGA LONGA
We decided to linga a bit longa at Wonga and stayed another day here. It is lovely and quiet here and with the incredible sea view that we've got we couldn't resist staying here longer. It was so relaxing here just chilling out and watching/listening to ...