Cape Tribulation

Kate and I decided to do a trip up to the rain forest and go to Cape Tribulation for the day. Our first stop was at Mossman Gorge where we wandered through the forest next to the river until we came across a swing bridge. We had great fun jumping up and down on it!!

Next we went to Daintree Wildlife Park and were given a tour seeing wallabies, kangaroos, crocodiles and a number of birds. The best bit came at the end though, when we were able to hold a joey! So cute!

We got the ferry across the river and arrived at Cape Tribulation - shame the weather wasn't nicer for our time on the beach (but there was a warning about stingers so we wouldn't have gone in the sea anyway!) A large Water Monitor tried to join us for lunch but he was shoo-ed away! We also saw a very large Giant Orb spider by the toilets - I managed to get a photo of it by standing on a ledge in the men's loos (there was no-one in there!!)

We then tried various flavours of Daintree Ice Cream before we headed into the rain forest where it began to rain (well you would expect it in a rain forest!!) We had a botany lesson from our guide who showed us many types of trees and vines which was really interesting.

We then had a crocodile cruise along the river and managed to see one or two (but they were keeping themselves close to the bank and pretty well hidden!) We also had a stowaway - a little green Tree Frog who posed quite nicely for photos! We then headed back to Cairns.