Daintree Villiage Tourist Park
Stop 12- 280kms
We headed to Daintree for our rainforest fill for the trip..
with dreams of me climbing the canopy like spiderman! Oh how I couldn’t wait to tarzan my way through the
treetops!
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| leaving Cairns.. |
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| pretty little sandy beach leaving Cairns...pretty, except for the triffids that attack you on the way through the dunes! |
We stopped into Port Douglas for some lunch, drinks and a
gelati
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| Shop at Port Douglas... |
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| Big Cockatoo |
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| Big Barra, right near our campsite! |
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| Big Croc head on the banks of the Daintree River |
Anyway..
Was a really nice simple park and close to the Daintree
River, like right on the river…the river that they do croc tours on twice a
day!
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| pretty cute, if you want power, they plug you into the house and give you a 20m extension cord and you climb up the bank and connect your power cord to it! |
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| It rained...rained...and rained... |
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| view down to the Daintree River (South Side) |
So we went on the croc tour, both from our campsite and from
the ferry crossing. We only saw a few little ones and a large head on our first
tour and then saw a few bigger ones on our second trip. One of the crocs was
being very protective of her….dead cow! Poor little bugger got too close to the
waters edge and WHAM!...
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| baby croc |
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| tree snake |
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| slightly bigger croc |
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| big croc, guarding her carcass... |
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| Daintree River... |
We went on a day trip to Mossman Gorge which was some nice
falls and a cool suspension bridge walk…we got there to find that the
suspension bridge walk is closed…they didn’t tell us that until they took our
money!
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| whoops...wrong turn?? |
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| recon we could make it?? |
Mossman town’s main street is lined with “rain trees” from
Africa..pretty cool…
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| I dont know what to say about this, in the main street of Mossman... |
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| Brothel?? Gotta love the talent in far north QLD! ahahaha |
Then pack up and off to Cape Tribulation (and rainforest
skywalk!)
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| Visiting a bomb site, where the only Australian civilian casualty on the east coast, of WWII. She got schrapnel in her skull but was still kicking to unviel the plaque years later! |
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| Goodbye Daintree Villiage... |
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Waiting for the ferry to cross the Daintree River.. there is one other way to cross...
THE CREB TRACK....not for us this time....and considering the rain we got probably not for many this time! |
hey there shez and george - still followi ng and enjoying your blog. you seem to be having a ball.fish and chip night tonight and all the family here. we thought we might keep yours warm for you but then decided not to. keep looking for the BIG things. loves you both very much. take care
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nan xx