Daintree National Park: Cape Tribulation

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wow! what an intense three day I had!! Never thought the rainforest of Australia was so thick and deserted!! No phone in a national park guys, even less internet!

After the high class Port Douglas, the magnificient Kissey took us to Mossman, a quiet little town, especially on a sunday. Decided to go a bit further to find a great spot to sleep and Cooya beach was the night destination (10 min away from the "city') (see picture on phil's website) Nothing feels better than cooking, eating and sleeping by the ocean in a comfy van!! waking up the next morning and opening the side door and seeing the palm trees and ocean is also a great feeling, let me tell you 😊

Kissey then took us to Daintree where my Let's go guide luired me into thinking there was something to do there...except 30$ cruises on Crocs infested rivers, nothing to do there so we went straight to the Daintree National Park (rainforest and wildlife!) Kissey had a few problems going up the huge hills at the beginning of the ride and her brakes had trouble going down all of them too....But we finally made it! Stopped on the way to Thorton Beach which was just beautiful!! It's awesome to see the rainforest disappearing on a huge white sand beach! It was great and there was no one!! We could scream and run and roll on the sand if we wanted to! hahaha
Finally made it to Cape Tribulation (never thought we would we Kissey....) and it was great! Huge beach, again with the rain forest, it's awesome...Didn't quite look like on the postcards or on the internet but blame it on the weather 'cause it is a nice beach!

Since we were on a national park, had no choice to sleep at a camp ground (Cape Tribulation Campground) so i could finally take a good shower!! Felt soooo good! It started to rain at 7pm that night and stopped at 7-8am the next morning!! i didn't sleep much, i was so worried the streets were going to be flooded (yeah, flooded, 'cause that's what happens in that area!) Anyways, finally the streets were okay the next day, went back to Thorton beach and finally headed back to Mossman to get back to our favorite spot for the night Cooya Beach!! 😊

This morning, we left for Cairns but stopped on the way to Hartley's Crocodile Adventures Farm which is like a huge farm/park where they breed crocodile (they have over 3000 of them) to make purses and belt and also for shows! had a great boat ride, a feeding show, saw koalas, cassuaries....Tons of stuff, it was a fun day!

now back to Cairns, took a great shower at the hostel (but we're still sleeping in the van until Friday)

Kissey will probably take us around Cairns in the next few days! we'll see!!

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Comments

[Grandma [Phil's]]

Sounds like fun
Sounds like you are having fun with Kissey.. those crocs are ugly. Did you see anything of that guy Irwin who dangled his baby over a croc? He would be interesting to see don't you think? Have fun Maude, I like reading your journal in here. Don't reply all the time tho' as it's usually very late at night..so just lurk around......have fun and take care ~hugzz