After the Atherton Tablelands it was off to the Daintree Rainforest – about 120km North of Cairns. It was nice there, would have liked to do a crocodile boat tour, but time didn’t allow really..
However, there were more fig trees about (yes, I have a strangler-fig-tree-fixation)
It has mangroves, pretty much as a part of the rainforest. Mangroves are any area which has sea water at ground level? Or something like that. Either way, they send up shoots to the surface (I think the roots get fresh water beneath the surface, and send up shoots to breath. Or something…) Anyway, here’s a picture!
There were also some funny signs (the bird is a cassowary).. the first sign was for a ramp + to be careful of the cassowarys. Some artistic wag.
And another one for a dip.. in the ocean perhaps?
Then today (friday) up earlyish and hiked up to a mountain called the devils thumb looking down over daintree. This pic is not from the top, nor even on the hike, but it is of the daintree coast :)
There are about 1,145,621 different things to scratch and tear at your legs… still, a great hike, would reccommend.. and didn’t see any (live) snakes either. bonus.
Finally.. finished ‘A long walk to freedom’ by Nelson Mandella. Superb book.. I felt so ignorant after reading it.. (well, during my reading of it)
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