The Daintree Rain Forest

Spent the day exploring the Daintree on a small group tour. It was a very good day - with lots of sleeping on the bus (oops...).

Pictures are better than words though, so here's a little peek at what we did today!

The only way to get to the Daintree from Port Douglas is by ferry.
They must make a lot of money carting everyone back and forth every day.

Crocodile boating tour with our guide Ernie.

The view on the croc tour was stunning.
The photos on the boat tour were all taken by Nick - he was very excited about looking into the camera eye piece...

We saw some crocodiles! Maybe 4 or 5?

Kayaking in the Daintree

Pauleen didn't want to go so Nick came with me as well so I wouldn't flip the canoe :)

Spikey but pretty vine plants along the walking path.

We also got super lucky and got to see wild cassowary along the road! Apparently there are only about 1000 left in the wild, all living along the northern border of Queensland/Western Australia. They think there are about 60 living in the Daintree area. I didn't take any photos because he/she was behind some bushes, but I've pulled a photo from the internet for anyone who doesn't know what a cassowary looks like:

Courtesy of the Cassowary Recovery Team