Cape Trib and Daintree

There was a lot of rain overnight and it's still going. Luckily it eased up to pack up the tent this morning. We headed to Turtle rock Cafe for breakfast and to work out the plan for the day. The rain had picked up again so we skipped a nearby boardwalk and headed for the Daintree discovery centre. It's mostly outside but they provide umbrellas and the rainforest was certainly living up to its name. We were given a map and an audio tour, so off we went. We cruised through pretty quickly and decided to loop back to the Daintree icecream co for a snack. I had the mango sorbet and Ben had the chocolate. Headed up to the Alexandra range lookout but the weather isn't playing nice so we couldn't see anything. The ferry wasn't far off and our croc tour not until 2:30pm, but we jumped on the ferry anyway. The bloke had a laugh about how dirty the car was and said they expected to see a heap more cars coming from the cape as the wet, stormy weather is meant to be heading north. We had some time to kill so ducked up to Daintree village, the Cafe and general store were shut so we went back to the croc tour car park and watched netflix until our tour started. The bloke driving our boat (we didn't catch his name) was very informative and said that there hasn't been a lot of movement today as it's surprisingly cool and it's warmer underwater for the crocs at the moment. We did see a few babies and one that was a '2020 model'. The oldies were right into the local birdlife too. It was a nice tour, only an hour, but we definitely saw bigger crocs on our own adventures. Just luck of the draw.Read more