Blogs from Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 16

Another update, I'm starting to get good at this. But have been a busy bee, ish. So yes, During this week i headed away from cairns for 3 days upto cape tribulation on my own, which was a bit weird. Had to book a tour up, but did just want to jump on a bus and go as people had said it's a much nicer place than cairns, which is actually really dead with very little going on, well it comes to life a bit more at about midnight but there really aren't that many bars, apparently cairns has a population of 80,000, but u will find more than 250,000 people here at one time, where are they all? anyhow i headed north, went for a walk around the mossman gorge, was good, but not ... read more

After a cruise along the Daintree River, during which we saw a baby crocodile and loads of snakes we arrived at Cape Tribulation Beach House where nowhere was safe. We were at a remarkable meeting of two World Heritage sites, the oldest rainforest in the world and the Great Barrier Reef but this did not change the fact that everything there could potentially kill us. Our lodgings happened to encroach on the territory of "the World's Most Dangerous Bird" (Guiness Book of Records 2006) the Cassowary (they like to disembowel you with their claws), and we bumped into it almost immediately. Despite being highly endangered and protected, these are evil, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Going to the loo became too perilous to attempt alone (or altogether in Rosie's case!). When we told our German ... read more

Wednesday- So i decided to see some of the Great Barrier reef from a lot drier climate...that took the form of a bottomless boat and yellow submarine. I went to "green island" to do this. They don't call it GREEN island for nothing u know! the weather was really windy, it was the choppiest boat ride i've ever been on and i was surrounded by puking japanese people! YUCK! Unfortunately, as the weather was so rubbish, the sea was all murky- therefore reducing visibility of fish and coral. To be honest, i've seen better views of the reef on tv and postcards but hey, at leasst I was there! It was a pretty little island, weird to have rainforest right next to beach though! but hey, thats queensland!!!! All in all, i think im DONE with ... read more

To our amazement we woke up to brilliant sunshine this morning... what a relief and such a contrast to the previous day's black clouds and rain. We had to check out at 9am so got up early and headed to the only swimming hole where there weren't crocs. It was a bit of a dispointment with the water looking quite shallow and mosquitos everywhere! So we went on a board walk through the rainforest. On the way we rain into the Canadian girls who were shooting a nature documentary. Was very funny! There was just about enough time to go for a quick dip in the pool at our hostel before jumping back on the bus to take us back to Cairns. On the way we stopped at an ice cream farm and the ice cream ... read more

We had a 2 day trip up to Cape Tribulation, called so as this is where Captain Cook's vessell, the Endeavour ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef. It was a lovely place, with stunning views. Although it was soooooo humid and hot we found it hard to leave our airconditioned dorm. Literally everyone was just lying about all day because there was no air. We did manage to go Jungle Surfing though. The Raintree rainforest is in this part of Queensland, so we took the opportunity to be monkeys and swing through the rainforest. Great fun. Pics below. We also went on a river criuse up the river and saw a croc on the bank. On our way home we went through Port Douglas, which is a lovely little town. ... read more