Yes we are home and most of you are aware that I've been a little preoccupied, but I hope you don't mind receiving the last few posts so I can make this 2011 Big Trip Blog complete!
I've heard a lot of people say its not worth driving all the way up to the Daintree and Cape Tribulation, but when you understand a little of what you are experiencing it really is something special. Its also very beautiful and dramatic the way the steep mountain ranges are blanketed by dense rain forest that make their way down onto the white sandy beach at Cape Tribulation.
The landscape of the Daintree National Park started forming under the sea around 400 million years ago. What makes the Daintree and surrounding area so unique is that it holds most of the worlds primitive plant families and a large number of endemic animals...those found nowhere else in the world.
The reason for this is because its cloudy wet mountain tops and deep valleys provided safe havens for plants and animals over millions of years of climate fluctuations, including ice ages that caused mass extinction of species that could not adapt. Those that found refuge in the Daintree survived and many have changed little since those ice-age ancestors. See we did learn something!
We explored the area all day, doing some walks through the rain forest and along the beaches and mangroves. Here is a collection of some of our photos from the area.
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| One of Bens unsual bug finds |
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| Cape Tribulation |
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| Hopefully there are no croc's in there Hannah |
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| Does the tooth fairy know where we are? |
Next stop is Lucinda, near Hinchinbrook Island
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