Bits About Us Together: Queensland Part 4

After breakfast we packed up and headed further north. Our first stop was at Thorntons Beach...

Then continued onto Cape Tribulation...

Cape Tribulation Beach was beautiful especially as you just step straight out of the rainforest and onto the beach...

There were masses of tree roots which I am guessing are mangroves but they look a lot different to ours at home...

We went for a short walk on the Cape Tribulation boardwalk to the lookout...

This guy hung around everyone at lunchtime...

After another stroll on the beach with the tide out we had reach as far north as we could go without a 4WD on these roads so we headed back down south...

We stopped and had a look at some pythons and snakes in the Snake House and called into one of the few small shops and got a bottle of wine. Next stop was the Marrdja Walk. As with all these rainforest walks it was very pretty and I love the fan palms...

After our visit to Thorntons Beach in the morning and checking out their nice cakes we decided that that was the place for afternoon tea. They certainly didn't disappoint with a beautiful setting tucked in the bush and super yummy pumpkin and ginger cake and a big fat slice of moist apple pie...

Too much cake?

It was during this driving around that I spotted an elusive Cassowary walking along the side of the road. Peter nearly ran off the road with me screaming with excitement. With all the panic we couldn't just stop quickly and we looked back to see it crossing the road in front of the people travelling a little way behind us. We couldn't even get a photo but at least we all saw one!...

After a busy day we headed back to our little hut in the forest. We walked down to the pools and decide to just paddle a bit...

The water was freezing cold and who knows what was lurking in there but I decided I would regret it if I didn't have a swim so Janelle and I stripped down and in we went. All was good until Janelle started screaming that something was touching her leg so we scrambled back to the rocks...

During the night I was woken by Janelle and Peter at 3.30am shining torches and looking outside as they had both heard noises. Turns out they were both wrong and the noises were inside and something had had a good feed of our food...

The time had come for us to leave our little hut...

One more sit by our pools and waterfalls...

We called in to the Daintree Tea Company which was just an honesty stall next to their tea plantations with information about how they operate...

Next was a visit to the Daintree Discovery Centre. This is a great set up where you use a hand held audio guide and walk around the Ariel Walkway at different heights through the rainforest...

You also go up the Canopy Tower which is 23 meters high and give great views on 5 different platforms over the rainforest...

Yes a self timed pose

Back to the Daintree River and onto the ferry much quicker this time...

We then travelled to Daintree Village and had a picnic lunch and scones and a cuppa...

It was then time to leave the Daintree behind and we drove down to Port Douglas. We found our accomodation and checked in. We had done well and chosen a place to stay just 100m from the beach and about the same from the main shopping street...