Our first night in the jungle ‘tent’ was great, we fell asleep to the sounds of the rainforest at night and woke to see the sun shining through the canopy. We felt we deserved a lay in this morning, so did not surface until 10am, after which we had a leisurely breakfast. You can see in the photo below one of the ‘walls’ of our tent like structure.
We drove north today, until we ran out of road! After Cape Tribulation Village the tarmac road stopped and all that was left was a dirt track going up to Cooktown. We parked the car up and went to Kulki lookout to admire the rugged coastline and reef, which had damaged Captain Cook’s boat The Endeavour all those years ago.
We were also mindful that we were now in the heart of the rainforest, and nature ruled…the warning signs were everywhere!
Next stop was the Bat House, where we both got the chance to feed a small male specktacled fruit bat, and went on a rainforest regeneration walk.
We then drove south to Dubuji boardwalk, where we had lunch and did the 1.2km walk through 3 rainforest inhabitants; rare rainforest surviving on sand, fresh water swamps and mangroves.
We then headed back to the hostel calling in at the Daintree Ice Cream Company to sample their pick of the day; coconut, yellow sapote, raspberry and wattleseed.
Back at the hostel we have chilled out for the evening…ready for our croc cruise tomorrow!
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