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Published: November 25th 2010
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Today was my visit up to the world's oldest rain forest in Cape Tribulation. Almost.
First stop on the way is a small wildlife park where we were introduced to some seriously cute Koalas. Asleep in their trees, not a care in the world. One of them woke up to yawn but all this was a bit too much for him so he went for another little snooze.
It was then time to stroke a baby croc and an old python. I'm not sure if it was my imagination playing tricks but the snake seemed to be edging closer and closer to me which meant a little journey to the back of the crowd was in order.
I wandered around the sanctuary , smiled at a crocodile, waved at some wallabies and then.... kangaroos! They exist! Six months in Australia and I no longer believe that they are a myth.
Next stop was Mossman Gorge. And the rain began. Now being from London, I know rain, but I have never known rain quite like this. I put on my trusty raincoat and went for a walk in the rain forest.
Within about three minutes, my raincoat
had failed me and I was soaked through. The rain had caused a bit of a flood and the river was high, fast and not a very nice shade of brown (instead of its usual emerald green.) So the plan to swim in it went out the window (along with my raincoat.)
So after giving up on the Gorge, we headed over to the Daintree River for lunch in the rain. After a while, the rain started to ease up but our guide informed us that there had been so much rain that the roads to Cape Tribulation were flooded and there was no way of getting up there without a 4x4. So my day trip to Cape Tribulation wasn't exactly going to plan.
To make up for the lack of Cape Trib, they extended our crocodile cruise along the river and we managed to spot two adult female crocs and three snakes. The engine on the boat very nearly made me fall asleep but I resisted (but probably only because I was momentarily soaked by a massive splash of water from who knows where.)
Alexandra lookout was added to the number of cancelled things seeing as
we wouldn't actually be able to look out at anything except the rain. So instead, we stopped at Port Douglas. Maybe it was the constant precipitation, but I really didn't think much of ol' Port Dougie. It was really small and super-expensive and there wasn't too much to do there.
I was dropped back at my hostel where I sat and ate pizza and then met a new roomie, Will with whom I played the 'guess my name' game. He managed to get it surprisingly quickly!
Maybe one day I'll get to go back and actually see Cape Tribulation. At least I was finally able to see the illusive kangaroo.
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