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Published: October 5th 2007
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Cape Tribulation !
At a Mad Monday party I got to know of people heading to Cape Tribulation the next morning and so I went early morning towards the end of the sealed road to the north. After Cape Tribulation it is only a dusty windy gravel road that continues north through the rainforest.
The people I came with thought it was a boring place and returned the same day to Cairns, but I was not bored at all seeing the beach with the fine sand as powder and staying at a hostel surrounded by rainforest.
I stayed 8 nights in this distant place which is not connected to any main power lines and where you need to have a flashlight with you once the sun goes down to be able to find you way once away from the hostel.
The rainforest here is the oldest in the world and here some of the dangerous creatures live that I seen just on TV before.
18th September:
First day I went to the beach, during the day swimming and doing a photo shoot and also twice at night to see the stars so bright when only the moon was
Mossman gorge
A beautiful swimming hole where the small waterfall gave a deep tissue massage until my feet slipped and the current pushed me away dimming them. Strange enough I even met my room mate from Asylum hostel that I had said good bye to the same morning and other familiar faces as well.
Second day I went on a rainforest trail to a mount Sorrow lookout. It was recommended to start the trail before 10 a.m. and inform someone that you were going so the police would come to search for you if you hadn't returned by nightfall. It started to feel like I really was going into the jungle.
I packed my small backpack with 2,5 liters of water and plenty to eat and a first aid kit. Never know what will happen in the jungle.
The walk was easy at first, but got steeper and steeper and I was sweating more and more and was glad I had brought lots of water with me. This is the dry season and not even that warm yet so it would be very bad to try this during the wet season when it would be muddy, humid and much much warmer. It took only 2 hours though to reach the lookout where I spent an hour enjoying the view and eating most of my
Happiness of coming to a wonderful beach
The Myall beach at the hostel PK's jungle village. The Daintree rainforest is the only place in the world where tropical rainforest meets the ocean. food. Then 2 hours back down and during the 5 hours in the rainforest I met only 6 people so it was not that crowded.
Also saw a snake, a gecko and an eagle just sitting on the path and far away from its natural element of open spaces and the ever blowing wind of the east coast.
3rd day I visited the Bat House which had information about the rainforest and a living spectacled flying fox in the corner which I got to feed. Also went to exotic fruit tasting and got to taste tahitian lime, breadfruit, pommelo, sapodilla, roseapple, black sapote, davidson plum, jaboticaba, granadilla and rollinia.
Late afternoon also swam in a swimming hole of a small creek.
4th day went bike riding to Emmagen creek which is 8 km north of Cape Trib. The gravel road there was a windy road going up and down and often to steep to bike, so once again it was necessary to push the bike 😉 Emmagen creek swimming hole 800 meters from the road was a nice place to swim and across the gravel road was the Emmagen beach which was small and due its isolation almost
Gecko porn
Yes, I am a pervo :) empty of people.
5th day went to Dabouji boardwalk that went through rainforest and mangrove forest. Got to see peppermint stick insect which sprays when disturbed something that smells like peppermint. Also saw some turtles.
6th day went to Coconut beach which turned out to be quite a walk and on the way back along the beach was fortunate enough to get to walk along a private road back to the main road since the Coconut beach ended in an estuary (river entrance to the ocean) with a crocodile sign.
7th day went to Cape Tribulation beach hoping to see a cassowary which is the 3rd largest bird in the world and similar to an ostrich (struts in swedish).
I also spent some time at a research station and got to see a 1,5 meter long monitor lizard and a animal that looked like a rabbit with tiny feet.
26th September:
I left Cape Tribulation and stopped at Daintree river and took a 1 hour boat ride along the river and got to see an about 50 year old saltwater crocodile named Fat Albert.
I arrived in Port Douglas where I stayed 2 nights before
continuing to Cairns and a planned diving course
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