Blogs from Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 11

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When we originally booked our trip with Trailfinders they recommended that we have a few days peace and quiet to recharge our batteries in Australia. Fortunately they could recommend somewhere (funny that!) - a place owned and managed by them (doubly funny that!!) - called Bloomfield. Despite not really knowing anything about it and really just relying on a knowing look from Nick at Trailfinders, for our whole trip Bloomfield has represented an "oasis" in an otherwise pretty frantic wizz around the Southern Hemisphere - thankfully it didn't disappoint... actually quite the opposite... Bloomfield is situated on Weary Bay just North of Cape Tribulation in far Northern Queensland literally at the spot where Captain Cook crashed and burned (or scraped anyway) on the Great Barrier Reef. Talk about a wingeing pomme - just look at the ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation July 19th 2008

CAMPING HARD STYLE.... As we had a week to kill before joying Will and his "Play Bus", we have rented a car - Ford estate and went up north to explore.. CAPE TRIBULATION ... here we come... ..hour north as Scott- Ozzie dude we met in Luang Nam Tha, told us was more of a three hours. On the way we have started to see some rather strange road signs. We have both agreed we will be sleeping in a car, hence we needed to find somewhere where our big white car would not be so obvious... mission impossible... we drove up and down... we found ourselves driving in some rather doggy area where the decorations of fence were odd shoes and slippers and on their post box was a naked barbie doll with a wellington ... read more
Our home on wheels / Nas domecek na koleckach
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hallihallo! uns gehts prima hier! sind nun in far north queensland noerdlich von cairns vorbei an port douglas und daintree am cape tribulation und es ist traumhaft - super sonnenwetter und der strand ist traumhaft. fast keine leute hier oben und unsere huette im urwald ist echt schoen! heute waren wir am great barrier reef schnorcheln - eine surreale welt da unten - so friedlich und harmonisch und eine farbenpracht - gigantisch! vielen dank fuer eure zahlreichen nachrichten, freue mich sehr, wenn ich von daheim auch ein bisserl was hoere! vlg martin und kathi ps: der internetzugang hier im cape trib beach house macht um 11pm zu, drum muss ich jetzt schluss machen, melde mich aber demnaechst wieder und - ich will nicht zu viel versprechen - aber vielleicht gelingt es mir, einige fotos hochzuladen - ... read more
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Wanderung durch den Regenwald
Aussicht von unserer Privatveranda im BnB am Lake Tinaroo in den Atherton Tablelands

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation July 16th 2008

The weather hasn't improved; it has been raining all night. We briefly head into the general store to get a few essentials. We are planning to go to Cape Tribulation today, which by all accounts is a place of great natural beauty, but also a place where amenities are few and far between. So we want to make sure we can survive the night if we fail to find a restaurant or anything. However, the general store is rather lacking in basics itself. The shelves are rather bare! We do manage to get some essentials, however, and set off... The weather fails to improve; in fact, it gets a little worse if anything. We manage to pick up a couple of cheap raincoats on the way up - actually, they are more like plastic bags with ... read more
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My vacation time has started just the day after I have submitted my last exam for MBA. A few weeks before I organized a 2 week's stay for wwoof-ing (= willing workers on organic farms) at an organic fruit farm amid the rainforest at Cape Tribulation (http://www.capetrib.com.au). When I arrived at Cairns I was very pleased by the pleasant climatic conditions here.... similar to the Mediterranean! A bus shuttle service took me and a few other relaxed guys up to Port Douglas first, and then to Cape Trib. First we enjoyed Port Douglas for 1/2 a day, and then headed northwards on a winding road deeper and deeper into regions of no (or nearly no!) human civilization. I was welcomed at Digby's and Alison's place and shown my lodge (with veranda and own bathroom) where I ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation July 4th 2008

Thursday July 3rd I woke up at 7:00 after a 10 hour sleep. I was the only person left in the tent. I got out of the tent to find Mike and Katja in the car. Mike was asleep behind the driver seat using the driver’s headrest as a pillow. Katja was awake reading a magazine in the passenger seat. We had breakfast and got out of the caravan park just after 9 O’clock. We continued north along the coast crossing the Daintree River by cable ferry. Once across we were officially in Tribulation. We continued north stopping at boardwalks along the way. They wound through the dense green rainforest with plenty of educational signage which explained the climate and its history. We stopped at many beaches along the way as well. While on the beaches ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation July 4th 2008

helllo so we are back in the land of computers!! there is sooooooooooo much to fill you in on since our last entry and even more ahead - its all go go go now!! we arrived in cairns about 7am (its 2 hours ahead of the west) and were picked up by our hostel which was great. Headed into cairns city to a very overcast day. as we were knackered (but we did sleep all through the flight luckily) we did our usual and headed to the nearest hotel with a pool and camped out with our belongings on the loungers - although much to our disgust we had to move as it started raining on us!! we were very unimpressed as we had come to cairns expecting sunshine!! also to our great disappointment the lagoon ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation July 2nd 2008

Hello hello hello!! I’m baaaaccckkkkkk!!! There has been lots happening - so thought it was time to put another post up. I am still in Cairns ... in enemy territory for tonights State of Origin match. Am not too confident I must say ... so I have decided to lock myself away in a (free) cabin tonight ... if for no other reason, than for my own safety! So whats been happening? Yesterday I took the drive up to Cape Tribulation. That place is gorgeous! I had been trying to get in contact with a former employee of mine who now works at Cape Trib, the one and only Jessica “Fingerbun” Banks, however despite numerous messages, and attempts to call her, I had not had any success. So off to Cape Trib I went. The drive ... read more
Turtles Crossing Sign
Cape Trib Roads
Cape Trib Beach

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation May 29th 2008

So 7.25am came and after bout 1 and a half hours sleep up we got to go on our Cape Tribulation tour. Lucky for us, the driver of our mini bus didn't mind waiting 5mins as we were not quite ready. There were 8 of us on the tour so it was quite nice to spread ourselves out and get some extra sleep on the journey. 1st stop was a nice little beach in Port Douglas which is apparently where you can see famous people wandering around. No such luck for us, although I am not to sure I would have recognised them as I was feeling severly hung over and very sleep deprived. Willo on the other hand felt fine and that made it worse for me! After a brief breakfast stop and a couple ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation May 24th 2008

Panoramic Picture: View From Alexandra Range At Start Of Cape Tribulation Car Hire We were both extremely sleepy when we heard the alarm go off from the mobile phone at 6:15am. Pretty much every morning has been an early start as of late, but we hadn't really got used to it yet. After showering and getting ready in the dark, we hopped on to our hostel's shuttle bus and made our way to the car lot to pick up our hired car. We had initially been looking to do a day tour to Cape Tribulation, but with some advice from a tourist agency, opted to just hire a car and do it ourselves which would save us a bit of money. It was a small car, and I mean very small. A one litre engine so ... read more
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