Blogs from Daintree, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 5

On Wednesday morning, I drove up to see various parts of the Daintree Rainforest. It's reported that "this World Heritage Listed area contains the highest number of plant and animal species that are rare, or threatened with extinction, anywhere in the world. The Daintree Rainforest is over one hundred and thirty-five million years old - the oldest in the world. Approximately 430 species of birds live among the trees, including 13 species that are found nowhere else in the world." I first stopped at Mossman Gorge and to do a walk by the Kuku Yalanji people (aboriginal people who have been on the land forever). It was an informative walk about the plant life and how people survived/lived off the land. Our tour guide had some interesting stories about the area. I then went on to ... read more

Romana and I decided we would take a road trip along part of the east coast of Australia. This would be a farewell trip for Romana, having been in Australia since November and a welcome trip for me, having just arrived. So we set off with 10 days to play with, starting in Cairns and ending in Brisbane. We hired a little campervan so that we would have the freedom to stop when we felt the need and also didn't have to worry too much about accommodation along the way. We flew from Sydney to Cairns and as we approached our landing, the scenery was absolutely spectacular. We saw the coastal road that we would be driving along with mountains one side and beach all the way along the other side. Once landed, we all trailed ... read more

Hey all! So basically right after getting back from sydney we headed out on a 3 day field trip. On the way we stopped at Mossman Gorge which was a national park area... rainforest and water among all these huge rocks. It was beautiful and amazing. When we got to our accomadations (hostel in the rainforest called Crocodylas) we unpacked and stuff and then drove a few miles to Cow Bay Beach. sigh. it was amazing. sun, sand, shells, rainforest, blue ocean. i took a million pictures. walked along the beach. then laid in the sun reading. Just hung out after dinner playing cards and stuff. On the second day I got up for a bird walk in the morning. We didnt see much but it was still fun. Then we went to the Daintree Discovery ... read more

Our first hot night sans a/c (forgot to turn it on) and we survived. Was nice to have a night similar to summer nights at home. We sat around in the morning figuring about where we should go, then decided on going up to the Daintree rainforest and spend the night at one of the many eco resorts up there. We got on the road and took about 2 hours to get up in the area. It was a very nice, hot, amazingly dry, sunny day...so the drive was wicked. We made our first stop at the mossman gorge where people do a lot of swimming, we had arrived in Daintree National Park. We then made a quick stop at Sacha's dads place to arrange a boat ride on the Daintree River, then we headed to ... read more

Sunday morning we were picked up at 7.45 for our trip to Daintree NP in a 4WD Toyota run by Billy Tea Tours. After collecting other punters we headed north to Daintree village where we had coffee/tea and biscuits before doing a boat ride down the river. This was very interesting and we saw a fair cross-section of wildlife, lucky we were told, given that it was wet and at the start of the wet season. Saw three crocs, including a basking baby on a sandbank and large tree python (too far away for the camera) a beautiful kingfisher and various assorted birds and other animals before arriving at the Daintree cable ferry where we were collected by the 4WD again. The ferry affords access to the Northern section of Daintree NP and Cape Tribulation. It ... read more