Sweet Wayfaring

This was our last day at Port Douglas.  Tomorrow we move onto Cooktown the ultimate destination of our tour.

Once again in the evening we headed down to the beach.  I am not so much a beach person but my husband likes to feel the sea breeze on his skin.

The next morning we dutifully headed off to Mossman Gorge.  It'll just be more rainforest I thought but as the Things to Do list had it as a Must See I figured we have better go anyway. The star of this show is not the rainforest, it's the gorge.  Big boulders and crystal clear rapidly moving water.  I was disappointed that in the photographs it looks like just a rocky creek -- I am hoping the last shot gives you a sense of scale, they are very big rocks in that creek,

Before scurrying back to the van to do my day's work we stopped at the tea planation we had seen on the way up to sample locally grown Daintree Tea and did another stop to try the home made ice cream flavoured with exotic tropical fruits.

On the way back to the car I spotted a blue butterfly, the other thing that appears on all the advertising literature for these parts.  And once again I didn't get the significance of it until I had seen one with my own eyes.  They are big and spectacularly blue but annoyingly difficult to photograph because they like to fly high.  All I got was this silhouette.

Needless to say another beach fringed with coconut palms. Disappointingly little seems to wash up on these beaches.

We are about to pop out of the mangroves to the beach, but let me digress for a moment to talk about the hidden dangers of the tropical rainforest and sea. A crocodile might bite you. Jelly fish might sting you. A cassowary might kick you. (The Southern Cassowary is the second heaviest bird on earth) A snake might bite you (Coastal Taipan is the third most venomous land snake in the world) And if that is not enough even the plants bite. I say hidden because I saw none of these even though that plant is very common in other parts of Queensland.