Cape Tribulation to Cairns

10^th July – There is a track to Cape Tribulation called the Bloomfield Track. It has a reputation for being really hard but it was not as hard as we had heard it was going to be.  It was very steep up and down with a few creek crossings.

Along the way, we saw a car upside down and badly damaged in a steep gully.  Then we saw another one on it's side all smashed up on a flat bit of road with a dip.  Dad said that the drivers must have been silly and were driving too fast.

At the last creek crossing we saw what seemed like thousands of people who had driven up as far as they could.  It was weird seeing so many people after not seeing very many for the past few weeks.  They took photos of our car crossing the creek.

Cape Tribulation (near where Captain Cook’s ship ran onto the reef) was very busy and it was raining so the water was very murky.  It did not look as beautiful as it must usually look. We did a few little walks in the rainforest along the coast but it was not very much fun in the rain.

We camped by the river at Daintree. We found lots of little red beads on the ground.  They were from the Red Bean Tree and we collected heaps of them so we can make some jewellery when we get home.

11^th July – The next day we headed off to Mossman Gorge but when we got there we found that you had to pay to catch a bus into it and it was raining so we gave it a miss and headed on to Port Douglas.

Port Douglas is very touristy and not really the place for us so we stocked up on food, bought a couple of books and headed for Cairns.

Cairns is just a big country town really. Dad was not feeling very well and it was still raining so we got another deal on Wotif and hunkered down in an apartment for the night.

We watched TV for the first time in ages and ate apple pie because the apartment had an oven. Mum did loads and loads of washing.

12^th July – The sun was shining the next morning at last! We went for a walk along the Promenade on the water’s edge.  It was Naidoc Week so we saw an Aboriginal dance concert.  We had a play on some equipment and then a swim in the lagoon but of course it started raining again so we got cold and decided to leave.

Bella living it up on the Promenade in Cairns

 

Mum and Dad thought it would be nice to take the scenic route to Paronella Park but we did not think it was nice.  We could not enjoy the views because the windy road made us feel car sick.  We had to stop to let Will have rest but at least he did not vomit. 

It was bucketing rain and so we did not stop off at most of the side trips we had planned.  We did get out to look at the Curtain Fig.  It is enormous and has lots of roots coming down from up high so it does look like a curtain.