On Tuesday we left Pt Douglas and had lunch in Daintree village before heading for Cape Tribulation. During our three days in Pt Douglas we had quite a lot of rain - Monday night 48mils in 2-3hours - and it did not stop. Cape Tribulation has the most amazing rainforests, the vegetation is different from the other Wet Tropics we have seen, and everything was dripping.ir..during April over 1000mils have fallen at the Cape.
On the drive in we saw a cassowary and his chick foraging beside the road, all the cars just stopped and we were all looking until one car speeded up so the cassowary just walked into the bush, sad for us.
We stayed overnight in the Nat Park but the dripping really was hard - not cold at all just everything was wet.
Had a fantastic ride along the beach just south of the Cape - love riding those beaches. The bike is really showing the bad treatment it gets, though I do spray it regularly, but it gets showered by the rain, often!
We went on a couple of the boardwalks into the rainforest, just so interesting, did not see many birds or butterflies. Perhaps it was too wet/
Drove back to Cairns and stayed at Lake Placid and once again tried to paddle Noodle but the access meant we would have to carry her over 100 metres and I don't do that. So we decided that we needed to make a dolly to trolley her around. So off to Bunnings - we bought a trolley on special and just took the wheels, axle and washers - much to the amazment of the checkout chick, left the rest with her. We headed to Mareeba, where Christian was staying when I was away to see his friend, Bill, to borrow his drill. We now have a dolly so tomorrow we will head west to Chillagoe first then more west.
Don't know how internet access will be for the next couple of months but will try to blog when I can.
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