Port Douglas

After breakfast on board and whilst waiting for the tender ashore, we rang on the offchance that we might be able to hire a car and thus began our day driving to the Daintree.

We drove up the Captain Cook Highway up the most spectacular scenic drive.  Our first stop was at the lookout overlooking Port Douglas.  We were amazed how much it had changed in the nine years since our last visit.

Along the way we stopped for a cruise on the Daintree River with the crocodiles where we only saw one croc but did see some beautiful birds and even nosed up a creek to a crocodile nesting site.

We drove up towards Cape Tribulation and out to Cow Bay.  The beaches are famous as where the forest meets the sea.  To get there we had to cross the Daintree River on a car ferry.  There are many similar beautiful beaches but eventually we had to return so we did not miss the last tender back to the boat at 5.30.

We did manage to fit in a look at Mossman but on this occasion did not visit the gorge.  We were disappointed that the sign on the local pub was no longer evident.  It had read "Huge Topless Meat Raffle".

                                                 Gail where the forest meets the sea

 

                                                  Beautiful flows of the rainforest

 

                                               More Daintree beauties

                                      A croc resting with his head just out of the water. It was a 4.7metre male