First we started out in Cairns and Travelled up to The Daintree Village and River were we went on a river cruise to spot some crocodiles and we were rewarded (on our second hour long trip) by seeing an amazing crocodile which out guide said was at least 8ft long. 'It doesn't look very big on the photo' I hear you say… well we were a very long way away! Actually it was a baby croc that was no longer than 3 ft for head to tail but we were glad to see anything!
We then headed up the beautifully scenic ocean road to Cape Tribulation which was beautiful, we didn't manage to see any Cassowaries though!
On the way back down we had a pit stop and a brief dip in the crystal clear and amazingly chilly waters of Mossman Gorge before beginning our mission back down to Brisbane.
The drive was pretty painful at times, especially when our MP3 players both ran out of battery and there was nothing but the God channel or the politics Channel to keep us entertained! We tried the old car games… Eye spy but there are only so many things you can do… tree, road, tree, oh another tree! 20 questions and then Mike came up with a great game… it involved him singing everything we were doing… yes you may laugh but this was 7 in the morning and anyone who knows me knows that Steph is not one for singing that early in the morning… Safe to say it didn't go down very well and was banned for the rest of the journey!
We did have another lovely pitt stop in Bunderberg (great ginger beer and rum). We got tickets to the Mon Repos Turtle Sanctuary where we went after dark and waited around until the baby turtles hatched and made their way down to the sea… we were rewarded with watching 10's of baby turtles no bigger than our hands making their first journey down to the sea to get in to the East Australian Current (EAC dude!) It was a pretty amazing experience!
Then it was back down to Pete and Tanya's for a wonderful home made meal and a wonderful sleep in a real bed again!
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