Mount Alexandra Lookout and Ice-Cream

We made two more stops before heading back to Cairns:

1. Ice-cream stop — They make their ice-cream locally, with rainforest ingredients. Flavours included black and yellow sapote, jackfruit, soursop, coconut, passionfruit, banana, and wattleseed. I got the 4-flavour set: coconut, passionfruit, yellow sapote, and wattleseed.
• Yellow sapote (canistel) tastes like a dense sweet custard, almost like firm egg yolk custard.
• Wattleseed was earthy, slightly sweet, with notes of vanilla and coffee. Surprisingly good.

2. Mount Alexandra Lookout (Walu Wugirriga) — Nice view over the coastal rainforest, Daintree River mouth, and the Coral Sea. We didn’t stay long: back on the bus for the 2.5-hour drive to Cairns.

All in all, a long day — 7am to 7pm. The guide knew his stuff and was serious about safety. The group was loud and oblivious more often than not. By the end, slipping on my noise-cancelling headphones and editing photos felt like heaven. 😌😄Read more