Day 6 - Daintree

So we woke up and decided to go explore the Daintree rainforest! We soon found ourselves getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and on a beach, un-swimmable due to stingers but hey the loveliness made up for it!

Where the rainforest meets the reef!

Even though Mission beach likes to claim the fan palms for themselves I think the daintree takes the prize!

We then went 'Jungle Surfing' but I'll pop that into another post cause this is getting far too image heavy!

As we were waiting for our tour to start, we noticed a sign pointing to 

"Mason's Swimming Hole"
Yes please! Again another magical place

So pretty! Unfortunately after jungle surfing we had to say goodbye to the Daintree and head on another epic drive inland to a place called Chillagoe.   As we're driving out of the daintree, what do I spy out of the corner of my eye? A Cassowary!  I could have died,  not just one but a whole family of them. I grabbed my camera and started shooting them as they slowly dawdled across the road right in front of us. I shot about 6 shots before realising my lens cap was on *face palm* They are much like ducks in that respect, I excepted them to scamper across the road but they took their time and seemed oblivious to us even being there

I only ended up with one shot, but still, proof! So cool that in 10 days we saw 5 of the 1000 remaining!

The dad has just gotten into the bush in this pic! Aww babies!

I was seriously on a high all the way to Chillagoe

I Love Cassowaries!

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North Qld Day 3 - Lacey Creek

On Carmen's recommendation we decided to go check out Lacey Creek in Mission Beach. We kind of went down the wrong path and ended up in the middle of the rainforest. Well sort of,  we were still on a well defined track but I don't think it got a lot of use and thus every few steps you would encounter a spider web, smack bang, in your face!
(I let Ben go first :P)

You can probably see by Ben's arms it was super hot and humid, I'd say it's the most I've ever sweated in my life so we were pretty stoked that after a few km's of trekking we came to this...

North Qld beaches might suck due to stingers but there waterholes are amazing, we often found ourselves with no one around either, which was magical!

We ventures on to discover lots of butterflies

and fan palms, a speciality up north!

The Ulysses butterfly, which is a bit of a icon up here, I guess cause they are super pretty and blue!
Did I mention there are a LOT of butterflies up North, which I loved :)

And one of the many amusing signs up north!

So that was our morning, our afternoon was filled with Spanish castles :)
weeeeeee

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