Good day guys. Welcome to Australia. Yes, I promise to only
use that once. Welcome to the begining of my 14 day Beaches
and Reefs tour. Technically this is not day one, ttis is day 0, or
day x as I would like to call it. It is a day trip up to Cape Tribulation
that I am taking. Now this is actually an optional thing that you
can do on the Contiki tours. It is on one of the longer tours, but I'm
just doing it because I have an extra day here in Cairns.
Welcome to Daintree rainforest. So right now we are doing a
45 minute nature walk through this world heritage site
It's a natural heritage site. You'll see what I mean.
I now remember how much my hair hates humidity. Oh dear.
We're going crocodile hunting. Can you guys spot a crocodile?
Probably not. I don't think we'll get that lucky.
Apparently it is not the right season for it. That's okay.
Fresh water crocodiles, salt water crocodiles. Australia has two species.
these australian crocodile are a fresh water species. They prefer
flat country accross the tropic. This kind of river has only salties.
Salties are far the bigger and more powerful of Australia two
species.
This is so much cooler than in Disneyland. Oh my gosh.
Though I did actually see more crocodiles on the Disney ride.
If yu took a similar cruise on a similar type of river, similar type
of day, 1500, 100 millon or 200 million year ago, you would find
crocks behaving the same as the once today.
Well there you have it, our crocodile hunting experience. Only
one crocodile spotted. ut its okay, it is the wet season. You guys
when you come here come in the dry season, which is pretty
much winter time here. There is lots of crocodiles.
Cape Tribulation. There you have it.
What we are talking about the reef meets the rain forest and this is the only
place in the world that we have two world heritage area live next
to each other. Rainforest meets the reef. And if you go to the
right side, that strange colour of the water, that is quite a bit
dark, see where the break in the waves, that is all, all reef.
Next stop we have the Daintree discovery centre, which is
basically an interpetive centre at the rainforest. Right now we
are going on a beautiful canopy walk overlooking the rainforest.
We are on top of the rainforest guys. It's pretty impressive.
Sorry I am out of breath. I raced up here on the canopy tower to
the top of the rainforest.