Cape Tribulation

Lync-Haven Tourist Park – Cape Tribulation

http://www.lynchaven.com.au/

Stop 13 – 100kms

welcome to the other half of the Daintree forest! Tight roads, lush greens and really strong looking bridges...

view of our packed car...whilst waiting for the ferry

on the ferry, going THAT way

An unusual sort of park, our site was pretty small and very muddy…but it was raining pretty much the whole time…but you don’t get rainforest without rain…

entrance to the park

how did we fit you say??? It was very snug! But we were close to the amenities and camp kitchen, so it didnt matter that I couldnt get to my kitchen!

yep thats one big muddy puddle that we set up on!

But the park was huge including several large walks through the rainforest and around their animal pens…they had kangaroos and wallabies, heaps of snakes, birds and lizards and supposedly a very large croc which I saw photos of and saw a man heading off with a bucket of chickens with CROC written on the side so I must assume she really does exist! But we only stopped one night so we didn’t actually see her! They even had a resident wild cassowary to turns up at 8.30 every morning, we were told she is always near the "big puddle" the thing is...which one??? so many puddles. Oh and they had a fun outdoor cinema, but it was too rainy for a movie...

rainforest walk at the park

it rained the whole time we were here but at least its not cold!

Ok so we headed off to the Rainforest Canopy Walk…I had been told it was $25 each which I thought was pretty steep but I would cop it on the chin even though funds are seeping rather quickly into oblivion! We get there and it looks pretty cool, and the staff were so nice…but... it was $38 each …so devastated, I said thankyou very much and walked out…maybe Ill do the treetop walk in WA!

went to a lookout instead, to look at all the trees I could have been climbing around in!

these roosters were at the lookout...really strange
we overhead a tour guide saying that they were dumped a year or so ago and there were 15 chooks in total and the roosters are all that is left, they never leave the carpark area...

me tempting fate lurking around a mangrove creek in high croc area!

Now to prepare for our Cape Trip…several horror stories and “your not taking a trailer up the Cape are you??” and some "nah it’s a piece of pi#$" stories…

I GUESS WE WILL SEE…..

funny cassowary sign on the way to THE BLOOMFIELD TRACK...