Once again it had rained heavily overnight and the skies were gloomy. Nevermind - we were off to the Daintree!
We left about 8:30am and headed straight to the Daintree, about 50km away. The first stop was a crocodile river cruise with Belcher's crocodile cruisers. We arrived about 5 mins before the 9:30am boat and just as it started to bucket down. We bought tickets and plastic ponchos and practically ran down to the boat. The owners son, Griffith, took us out. We were out for 1h15m even though it was meant to be an hour long. We saw 6 crocodiles of varying sizes as well as a couple of kingfishers. Our boat was a lot smaller than the others on the river which meant we got very close to the croc's.
We then popped back into the car and drove into the Daintree township which consisted of 3 pubs/hotels, a tour operator and a gift shop. Steve saw that one of hotels had Devonshire teas and suggested that we give them a go. Nice work Steve as the scones, coffee and milkshakes were delicious!
We then drove to the Daintree ferry to get across the Daintree river. Unfortunately there was a very long line of cars in front of us - 1 hour wait!. None of us minded the wait and as we ended up at the front of the ferry next to a police 4x4, it was a fun ride. The road off the ferry was slow as it was very windy. We headed into the Daintree Ice Cream company where we bought their 4 flavours of the day - Coconut, Passionfruit, Soursop (like Lychee and lemon) and Wattleseed (like mocha caramel). We all LOVED the Soursop.
After the ice creams we had a look around the orchard before heading off up to the Cape. This was more windy road and when we finally got there (Myall beach) there was a bit of light misty rain. The beach was lovely and we could only imagine how spectacular it would be on a sunny day. Thankfully it wasn't as cold as Mission beach! We walked back from the beach via a boardwalk through the mangroves and rainforest. So lovely!
As we were only 1.3km from the end of the tarsealed road, we had to go there. There wasn't anything to see except potholes, so we turned back and headed to the ferry. About halfway back, we came across 4 cassowary on the side of the road - WOW! Rohan was asleep so he missed them :(
After a couple of blurry photos out of the window we kept on going as it was getting late. Thankfully there wasn't such a long queue for the ferry on this side and both Julian and Rohan slept through the whole wait, waking just before we drove onto the ferry. Then the rain came down VERY heavily whilst we were on the ferry and about half the way home. Thankfully it cleared up for our return to Port Douglas.
As it was already 5pm, we dumped the car and charged off to the Court House Hotel for dinner (Chicken Parma and Chicken Nuggets). As Steve returned to our table with our beers/juices, he said that Robbie Deans was next to him at the bar! So dinner was spent discussing what I could say to Robbie (me and Steve) and what LEGO Nexo knights Forbidden power was best (Julian and Rohan). I am sure it sounded very funny to passers by!
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