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Published: March 30th 2013
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Woke to calm sunny day at 08:00 and had remaining hot cross buns, fruit salad, strong coffee and mini aussie choc Easter eggs.
Got back to the room around 09:30 to find the bed made with two courtesy easter eggs.
We headed up the coast to Cape Tribulation at 10:00 and got to the Daintree Ferry crossing for 11:35.
The perfect day with brilliant sunshine and a hot 30 degrees - still humid so drove without shirts - common as muck.
The road after the cane fields of Mossman narrows significantly once you cross the picturesque Daintree river.
This is real tropical forest / jungle with numerous creeks and dips where the overflow across the twisting road in heavy rain.
There are many humps to slow traffic to protect crossing (prehistoric looking) cassowaries that are birds the size of emus.
We stopped at 12:00ish briefly at Mason's cafe with its local specialties of roo burgers and croc steaks, gave that them a miss but briefly investigated the swimming hole on the nearby Masons Creek.
Continuing up the winding road we got to Cape Tribulation picnic area and beach for around 12:30.
This was after crossing the temporary Noah
Creek bridge still being repaired - no more than sawn off logs and boarding at the mo - bit hairy....
The damp forest track opens out into the most beautiful tropical beach flanked by various types of palms.
Pity we couldn't swim due to the stinger threat.
We went along to the lookout after filming the red clawed crabs occupying the shallow mangrove creek near the picnic area.
I finally got some video of the native blue butterflies that are all over the forests at the moment.
We then made our way back along the road to the previous signposted attraction: the Dubuji boardwalk through the mangrove swamp and different types of palms being strangled by figs and vines.
More huge spiders but interesting.
After an hour walk we went to the most stunning beach in the area I think.
Wyall beach is a wide white sandy beach bay where the "tropical beach meets the reef" - amazing in the brilliant sun.
By 16:00 it was time to head back through the forest and winding road.
At one point a laceys monitor (1 metre long lizard) ran across the road to cross between the dense forest on either
side.
(We'd had one like this in the hotel bar a couple of days ago - glad we missed it up close!)
After crossing back on the river ferry we decided to get dinner in Port Douglas.
We parked near the Old Courthouse again and went to Paddy's on Macrossan Street.
Brian had a filling Steak and Guiness pie, mash and veg and I had a tasty fish pie with salad and came with a few chips - still ate them though 😉.
We went back to the car through the Anzac Park in between the Marina and Police Station to see the flocks of (parrots?) finding a roosting place for the evening among the over 100 year old trees.
Back to the hotel for 19:00 to collapse, and freshen before evening drinkies.
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What lovely photos you must be really enjoying your stay. Driving around without shirts not showing a 6 pack I bet more like a pop belly with all this feeding your faces. You know there is a weight limit on planes good job people are not weighed otherwise you would be paying excess baggage. Still cold will bring you some long johns at the airport if its not got any warmer. Just joking. Enjoy the rest of your hols