Daintree Rainforest
We woke up to pouring rain. But the temperature outside was still nice, so we decided to keep our plans to go to Daintree Rainforest. We stopped to collect shells at 4 Mile beach in Fort Douglas. The water is home to salt water crocodiles, so no swimming or wading here. Josh and Rusty and Blake found a big coconut to play catch with. We took the ferry across the river (why do all the travel bloggers make such a fuss about this ferry? It’s like 4 min long and you can’t even get out of the car). (How cute are Halle’s beach curls???)
The scenery one you hit the other side is just jaw dropping.
Right on the other side was supposed to be our little crocodile boat cruise with Solar. But….the boat was broken. Ok. That was supposed to be the fun thing of the day, so we improvised a little and found a company that does zip lines. I tried to book online because they had the perfect time for our drive only to get to the end and the system kicked me out. So, I tried to call. Our connection was poor, but she told me they had spots available. We got cut off so we decided to just drive there because we knew there were spots. Turns out the lady on the phone was mistaken. There were no spots. At least for a couple of hours. We figured we could kill a few hours, so we went to lunch at the “best” (read:only cafe) in Cape Tribulation. Then we walked along the Dubuji boardwalk to Myall beach. These jungle beaches are so exotic!
Now it was time to zip line! It was still pouring rain, but the forest canopy kept us pretty dry. It was a cute little course—nothing life changing, but we had some fun. And we learned lots of rainforest facts.
Blake found a souvenir that he couldn’t live without. He had me text Dan and ask if this outfit “Slays the Rizz.” The hat is the $7 cowboy hat we got in Steamboat. And he wore it EVERYWHERE. He even had it on his lap for the full 14 hour flight so it wouldn’t get squished. That’s commitment!
On the drive back we were cruising down the road, thick with rainforest trees. All of a sudden Josh yells, Cassowary!” We couldn’t believe he could see it in all the dense trees. We backed up, and sure enough, there was a Cassowary dad and a chick! (The dads raise the babies) What a spot!
We watched them from the side of the road and they are so creepy that they are kind of cute. Cassowaries are the closest relatives left to a velociraptor. It was such a fun surprise to see one in the wild.
There was one last lookout, Mount Alexandra, we wanted to hit. We were all tired and we almost skipped it. SO GLAD we didn’t. What a view. And, we were the only ones there.
We stopped at Port Douglas and grabbed some pizza for dinner.
We were grateful that the rain kept the sun away today. It was a nice break.
