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Mossman River

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    • Day 8

      Mossman Gorge

      March 1 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      Das erste Gefühl für Tropenklima bekam ich als Kind im Alfred Brehm Haus des Tierparks Berlin mit vielleicht 10 Jahren.
      Wir waren oft im Tierpark. Jetzt sitze ich wieder mal im Auto und fahre durch den Regenwald. Den Regenwald in South Australia an der Great Ocean Road hatte ich gar nicht so spektakulär in Erinnerung. Great Ocean Road....Regenwald... Cape Tribulation... Reizüberflutung.
      Ich bin jedesmal am Abend platt.
      Dennoch. Alle Unternehmungen zaubern mit ein völlig entspanntes Grinsen ins Gesicht.
      Das mich Queensland bisher so in den Bann zieht, hätte ich überhaupt nicht gedacht. Zumal dieser Bundesstaat immer wieder von Naturgewalten heimgesucht wird. Es bedarf sicher einem starken Willen, immer aufs Neue aufzubauen.
      Hier in der Felsschlucht Mossmann wird im Mossmann Gorge Culturale Center darum gebeten, den Bus vom Parkplatz zum Eingang der Schlucht zu nutzen und nicht durch die Gemeinde zu laufen.
      Plötzlich einsetzenden Regen haben sie als zusätzliches Argument für den Erwerb eines Tickets für Hin- und Rückfahrt.

      Später, im Creek Natur- Swimmingpool mache ich die Bekanntschaft mit einem Australier, der aus Perth kommt. Natürlich schwärmt er von West-Australia.
      Gut.
      Alle guten Dinge sind Drei.
      Vielleicht....
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    • Day 76

      Daintree Nationalpark III

      November 18, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      Auf dem Rückweg nach Cairns hielten wir im Nationalpark an einem weiteren Boardwalk durch den Regenwald. Ein Highlight war die Sichtung eines Cassowaries, ein Laufvogel mit einem hervorstechend bunten Kopf. Dem Kasuar begegneten wir aber mit Vorsicht, da er durchaus gefährlich sein kann mit seinen 1,7m und ca. 70kg. Also fast meine Maße, nur gefährlicher. 😂
      Traurig ist leider, dass diese schönen Vögel ebenso wie die Koalas vom Aussterben bedroht sind.

      Einen weiteren Stopp legten wir an der Mossman Gorge ein. Eine Schlucht, welche zum Baden genutzt wird. Wir selbst waren aber mehr an der Wanderung durch den Regenwald interessiert. Die Kulisse war super.

      Unser heutiges Ziel war Port Douglas. Eine kleine Küstenstadt, welche bei Touristen sehr beliebt ist. Wir verbrachten den Rest des Tages am Strand. Morgen gehts zurück zur letzten Station Cairns und dem Abgeben von unserem Camper „Torsten“. 🥺
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    • Day 37

      Mossman Gorge

      October 12, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F

      Port Douglas is a coastal city right at the foothills of the Daintree Rainforest. It’s a beautiful area. Today we took a drive out to Mossman Gorge - only 25 min or so from Port Douglas.

      You drive to the Mossman cultural center and then board shuttle buses that take you into the national park. It minimizes the traffic, which is nice. Once there, they have boardwalks and trails all through the gorge. We ended up doing a 2.5km loop trail through the rainforest along the river. It was really peaceful and beautiful.

      Once we got back to the end of the loop there was a swimming hole - it’s too cold in this river for crocodiles, sharks or jellyfish - so we were completely safe to swim. We did have to watch for flash floods but that was about the only risk. It was a beautiful crisp clear river and we really enjoyed cooling off.

      Then we headed back to town and did a second hike - the Flagstaff hill track. It was a nice path that ran along a cliff side overlooking the ocean. Lots of ups and downs and stairs, but the view and gorgeous ocean breeze made it worth it! Overall a beautiful day. I think Port Douglas may be one of my favorite areas in Australia.

      6.0 miles
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    • Day 19

      Daintree Rainforest & Cape Tribulation

      September 16, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      I joined a group today for coach journey to the North of Cairns to the oldest rainforest in the world - The Daintree. Our first stop was at Mossman Gorge, where we were involed in a smoke ceremony from an indigenous bloke who lit a fire using a specific tree bark to bless our spirits with the help of his ancestors He also showed us how different clays and plants are used to decorate the skin to denote different Aboriginal tribes.. Some of the more brave of our group then went for a swim in the water rushing through the gorge . Unfortunately, I had forgotten my budgie smugglers, so I had to sit that out 🙄. Next, we went up further north to the Daintree river, where we got on a boat to spot some wildlife. We were lucky enough to see 3 saltwater crocodiles on the river bank - 2 adults and a little 'un. Back on the coach again and even further north to Cape Tribulation, so named after Captain Cook ran aground here and was the beginning of a load of hassle for him, hence 'trials and tribulations'. This is also the spot where two World Heritage sites meet - the Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.
      It's been a bloody long day (11 hours in all), but I've seen things and sights I would never have if I had just hired a car and attempted it on my own.
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    • Day 16

      Mossman Gorge rainforest walk

      September 12, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Our first stop for this guided tour was the Mossman gorge station where we did a short walk around the rainforest on a boardwalk. It was a perfect way to familiarise with the rainforest and all the various species of trees living there and how they have adapted to this peculiar environment. The view on river is also stunning. At the end of the tour the station bar served us delicious scones with cream and a cup of tea made from local plantations. A tasty experience!Read more

    • Day 6

      Mossman Gorge

      November 6, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      Här är en flodbädd där granitbumlingar spolats fram. Det går att bada, vilket ett par tjejer visade, men det rekommenderades inte på grund av strömmen och stenarna. Vi fick också en kort promenad på en mycket väl anlagd gångbro genom regnskogen.Read more

    • Day 12

      En route to Millaa Millaa (inland)

      September 29, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      We had to vacate our pitch by 10am, so needed to engage our brains a bit. Not a slick departure, but going in the right direction, and as we pulled away we were gratified to note all leads had been detached and no camp infrastructure was following behind us.

      First stop Mossman Gorge (which I envisaged to be a quiet view) but turned out (mainly) to be a swimming hole, packed with folk. Col become one of those folk and took a dip ‘the water’s cooooool’.

      Saw the bluest of butterflies (too quick to snap) and a bush turkey, rifling through people’s bags for pickings 😁

      We walked through the rainforest on walkways, giving us a great view of the lower canopy and the plants weaving their way up trunks, and attached, parasite like, to their hosts.

      We crossed a wobbly bridge and watched the river from above, listening to the native creatures and family arguments as parents tried their hardest to keep their kids in check.

      After a couple of hours we arrive at our next stop over. How different each site is, Millaa Millaa is rural, more spacious and each pitch is more private, compared to Wonga beach camp. The facilities are fresher and it’s generally less ‘bush camp’!
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    • Day 19

      Mossman Gorge in the Daintree

      August 11, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F

      Today we took an Aboriginal-led walking tour of the Mossman Gorge in the Daintree Rainforest. Our guide , Jarrod, showed us some of their hunting tools—for example, the boomerang, which was not used for throwing, but more for striking and breaking an animal’s leg to disable it so it would be easier to catch with a spear. In more open lands, the returning boomerang might be used for knocking birds out of the sky. Jarrod, said it’s really very hard to be in the right place when the boomerang comes down.

      He also showed us how red and yellow ochre was used, along with black paste from wood ash, would be used on the body as markings to identify you as members of clans on your mother and father’s sides.

      After the tour, we hiked around the gorge area on our own and saw some of the strangler trees that Jarrod had showed us. They grow up around a tree and eventually strangle the life out of it—maybe over the course of 10-20 years. It was in the hollowed out trunks of the ‘host’ tree that Jarrod’s people would wrap their dead in the bark of the paperbark tree and bury them. Now, they aren’t permitted to do that. The rainforest is thick with vegetation, and a few birds were sighted, but no tree kangaroos, as we were hoping to find.

      No ice cream stop today, but a nice dinner and some stargazing back at Lync-Haven for our last night in the Daintree Rainforest.
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    • Day 1,128

      #250 Daintree Forest

      October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      Zum Abschluss unserer Queensland Tour ging es heute noch einmal in den Regenwald. Diesmal mit Tour und mit einen interessanten Programm. Erster Aha Moment war die Gruppengröße..... Drei😅, sprich es war eine private Tour, das war mal sehr entspannt👍. Erster Stopp, Moosman River. Schnorcheln, Relaxen und Spaß haben, schon mal sehr cool. Nach einen leckeren Mittagessen ging weiter zu einer Rauchzeromonie (um uns vor bösen Geistern zu beschützen). Nun gab es noch einen 1,5h Walk in der Moosman Gorge mit anschließender Erfrischung im See. Besonders unsere Guides muss man hervorheben, die uns den Regenwald näher gebracht haben und mit denen wir ein sehr witzigen Tag erleben durften🤗🤗🤗Read more

    • Day 4

      Mossman Gorge

      April 5, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

      Après avoir récupéré le van, on fait quelque magasins pour acheter le nécessaire pour l'équiper, ce qui nous fait arriver un peu tard à notre rando. Heureusement, c'était une sentier rapide.

      On parcourt la forêt tropicale et on évite de trop regarder en dehors du sentier pour ne pas croiser le regard d'une araignée ! 

      Ce qui est cool, c'est que tous les chemins de randos qu'on fait (les jours suivant aussi) donnent accès à des petits lagons, lacs, rivières, où on peut se baigner (sans crocodiles ou autres prédateurs). Et vu la chaleur et l'humidité ambiante, ça fait du bien... Beaucoup de bien ! Même si la plupart du temps, on ne se baigne pas complétement, faire trempette 10 minutes ça rebooste pour la suite ! 
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