Daintree and Cape Tribulation (Australian Rainforest)

Today we headed up to the Australian Rain forest. The drive was beautiful and it actually looked a lot like Hawaii. We just spent the day driving and stopping off at different spots. We had to take a ferry to continue on our journey. We knew that the ferry was going to cost about $21 to get across and back so I am thinking that it is probably a big ferry... one where you park your car and can get out and walk, etc. So we pay for the ferry and were told to stay in our car. I am thinking oookaay! We get to the ferry crossing and it was like…are you kidding me? We payed $21 for this? I could have probably swam it, it was so close.

 While we were waiting for the ferry to get back to our side of land so we could board everyone got our of their cars. We met our very first Aussie redneck!  I’ll let you use your own imagination. I think his sole purpose in life was scare tourist talking about crocs and stingers! Which by the way, we already knew about the stingers as we were told only to swim in parts of the beach that had stinger nets. The way we handled stingers…we just didn’t go to the beach or get near the water. No worries mate!

After we made it on the ferry we stopped off at the Discovery Center. It was pretty cool in that you went on a walk through the rain forest but never touched the forest floor. The majority of the tour was suspended above. Unfortunately we didn’t really see any wildlife, which was a bit disappointing.  Once we were done with that our next stop was for ice cream! We stopped off at this little place where this lady made homemade ice cream. Yummy!!

We drove a little further then decided to turn around and head back home! It was so beautiful…lush and green and the weather (besides being hot and humid) was nice and sunny…no rain!

We stopped by Mossman Gorge on our back home which was pretty nice. It had a little watering hole for swimming. We were there at dusk, but it would have been nice to be there in the hot of the day, but apparently the water was pretty cold. There were still a bunch of people there when we got there!

Tomorrow we head to the Great Barrier Reef!! I can't wait!