Daintree Travels

THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2016

 

Taipan

Look, snake!!!

Family group

We have to climb up there?

Listening to the commentary

Time for a selfie

McLean descendants at McLean's Lookout

Mmmmmm ...

Nice dinosaur ...

How cute

Two chicks doing the chicken dance

McLean's Creek

Enjoying the view at Cape Tribulation beach

Comparing southern suntans

Selfie

Mudskipper

Emma researching

Hanging about

Lookout at Cape Tribulation

Creek

Our tourist travels continued, with a trip to the Daintree.  Another early start as we joined the thousands of tourists and locals on the beautiful, scenic drive between Cairns and Port Douglas, where much of the traffic disappeared, thank goodness.  We continued through Mossman to the ferry crossing over the Daintree – and discovered hundreds of cars queued for the ferry.  It took us an hour of waiting before it was our turn to board and then it was a race north – or some of the vehicles thought it was!  We stopped at the Alexandra Lookout to let the traffic clear and also look at the scenery.  However, a group of people were gathered about the information sign and pointing to a snake on the other side of the fence and slightly downhill.  Naturally, out came the cameras and after many snaps, we were back in the car before realising we had forgotton to look at the view!  We realised after some research that we had actually been looking at a coastal taipan!!!  Our next stop was at the Daintree Discovery Centre where we climbed the lookout tower, wandered the boardwalk to McLean’s Lookout and ended up with the moving dinosaurs in the Jurassic Valley.  From all the laughter, our tourists obviously enjoyed themselves.

Next stop was Cape Tribulation beach for some vitamin D therapy and indepth study of mudskippers before heading to the lookout.  We stopped at the Daintree ice cream place on our return and we all enjoyed a sample cup with four different tropical flavours, with the exception of Emma who continued her study of different brands of chocolate ice cream.  With the afternoon rapidly disappearing, we returned to the ferry crossing and discovered there were nearly as many people wanting to leave the Daintree as there were heading north this morning!  We were also lucky enough to spot a large crocodile on the mud banks of the Mowbray River as we crossed the bridge, so lots of reptile sightings today.