Australia: Cairns – Cape Tribulation 1995

July 4, 2023

Cairns, considered the gateway to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, is a city in tropical Far North Queensland. Its Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park tells the stories of indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with music and dance. Cairns Esplanade, lined with bars and restaurants, has a swimming lagoon. Northwest of the city, Daintree National Park spans mountainous rainforest, gorges and beaches. Cape Tribulation is a remote headland and ecotourism destination in northeast Queensland, Australia. A coastal area within Daintree National Park, it offers a combination of rainforest and beaches. Boat tours are available to the Great Barrier Reef, lying to the east. Walking routes include boardwalks and a ridge trail on Mount Sorrow. Bird-watching and jungle zip-lining are popular activities.

🙂 Exciting rainforest!

🙁 Wet!

Arrived in Cairns from Hinchenbrook at 10h30. Booked a couple of trips: Cape Tribulation and Green Island and scuba diving. We headed to the market plaza and Trent got lost – they shut the shopping centre amidst complete panic and an hour later we found Trent in an arcade game car! Grrr… Went to lunch at Sizzler. Paul called his Dad to tell him the news after we had been at Drive In that we were getting married and he replied , “Well, it is your life”!!! Paul rang him back to ask him what he meant and then he said Congratulations!! Exciting news is that Libby is pregnant and baby due in August / September!

Picked up at 07h00 the next morning for our trip to Cape Tribulation. Raining hard! Gabriel was our driver – very informative. Navigated various floods – water was too high to get to Cape Tribulation so had to turn back Coppers Creek for lunch – miserable staff and awful burgers. They had a pet flying fox which was quite cute. Mossman River had flooded but the water was receding so after lunch we headed back and made it to Cape Tribulation. WET! Lady in our vehicle discovered a leach after our walk! On the drive back we picked up two girls who had been stranded in floods for 4 days! We saw people being pulled by their surfboard in cars surfing the roads!