Another trip into the rainforest today at Mossman Gorge. Gee its changed a lot in the last 24 years. You used to drive up to the 'beach' area and park than there were several viewing areas and that was it. Now you park in a large car park near the town next to a modern info centre/restaurant /gift shop developement. Then you are bused 3km into the forest ot the old car park where ther are now several walks to chose from of varying lengths from a few hundred metre...

OMG this holiday is one big fun fest!!!! Today was a slow poodling kinda day you know those days when you really have nothing in mind and you pile in the car and take off to somewhere? Well thats what we did off we went heading in the direction of Daintree. Mike loves to take off the main track so we discovered cane being harvested, a cane train pulling about 63 carriages full of cane off to Mossman and then we found a beautiful little river that just happened t...

Winter ?? You have to be kidding. Last night we tossed and turned in a humid 22c low. Today it is a sunny and sticky 29c At least there was a cool breeze on Port Douglas Inlet this morning as we set off in our hire boat. Tried to catch some live bait with no luck so resorted to the frozen stuff. Had several good bites and I almost got a good size Mangrove Jack but lost it at the last moment as it chewed through the leader with its sharp set of nasty looking teet...

Today saw the bad weather pass to bring another perfect day in FNQ. We left before sunrise and headed off in a northerly direction for the 45 minute drive to the Daintree River ferry crossing. As we crossed the river as the sun rose then another 45 minutes of winding road through dense tropical rain forest being very vigilant of the local Cassorwary's crossing the road (didn't actually see one though) saw us arrive at our destination at Myall beach We were che...

Well it had to happen. We are in the tropics. Our second rainy day since we left Ballarat over a month ago. Never mind time to take stock, read a book, have a massage (and blog) The five days we have had here so far have yielded perfect weather however with differing evening tempartures. The first night you could sit outside all night if you wanted in tee shirt and shorts. The next 2 nights were a lot cooler and the heavy doona went back on. Now its warmer agai...