Cape Tribulation

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Hi,

Well I arrived in Cairns yesterday afternoon and was greeted by torrential rain - not what i was expecting at all! Apparently it's a cyclone or anti-cyclone or something! Loadsa the trips to the barrier reef keep getting cancelled, so i decided to go on a day trip to cape tribulation (even further north than cairns) today. There were some decent beaches but again it was lagging down so not much fun. Rainforest was attractive though and we did a river cruise looking for crocodiles - according to our guide there was one on the river bank but no-one else could see it! Anyway we went to plenty of places including Port Douglas (the next little town north of cairns) but to be honest it wasn't great - the day pretty much consisted of sitting on the bus for ages and then getting off every now and then to walk around and take photos! I think there was even quite a lot in the rainforest and cape tribulation that we couldn't do because of the rain - like swimming and apparently crocodiles stay under water when it's raining and not really hot. So not a brilliant trip/tour but i've done it and ticked it off! The weather doesn't look like it's getting any better though and not only are the reef trips likely to be cancelled but the greyhound services between cairns and townsville ( the next place heading south that i'm going) have all been suspended for the last few days because of floods - so i may not even be able to escape! Oh well here are some photos from today anyway and will keep you posted on the cyclone!

Tim

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Comments

[serena]

weather in cape trib
hey tim, i'm heading up that way next week. i was hoping to get a glimpse of what the weather looked like through some of your photos but none of them will load. is it really that bad?? serena

[Timgroves]

weather in cape trib
Hi, Yeah it's pretty rainy but a lot of the cape trib stuff is rainforest so u can still do most of it but i'm in cairns and u can't get out of here at the moment by bus or train cos there's floods between here and townsville. Weather forecast seems to change every day but who knows - it might be much better by next week cos people seem to think it'll be really nice once the storms have passed. Hope that helps but at the moment the only way to leave is by flyin so i assume it's not possible to get into cairns either at the moment. Hope it's better next week anyway and u enjoy it if u make it. Tim

[serena]

hey, thanks for your reply! i hope that doesn't mean that i won't be able to drive out of cairns to cape trib. my flight lands in cairns! anyway, take care and i hope the rest of your trip is improving somewhat :)

[serena]

nice photos by the way... it's drearier than i thought!