Day 16 - Port Douglas

Todays plan was to visit the rainforest. So after breakfast we piled into the van and drove for about an hour up to the Daintree National park. To get there you need to cross the Daintree river on a cable driven ferry. No small feat considering the river is infested with Crocodiles !

Once across its like driving into Jurassic Park ! Huge cliffs, vegetation so thick you can't see into it, weird animals ! The road is super twisty and steep and the trees are so thick they create a tunnel over the road.

There are multiple ways to explore the forest including Jeep safaris, helicopter rides, cable car rides, river cruises, and hikes. We chose instead to go to the Discovery center which is a large complex of suspended walkways and towers where you walk through the forest . We were hoping the kids would enjoy walking around more than they did but it was still pretty cool.

The highlight was Wyatt sticking his leg through the railing at the top of the 100 foot tall observation tower and promptly kicking off his sandle !


The other people on the tower found this hilarious...as did Wyatt , until I told him he was going to have to wear one shoe now for the rest of his life. He didn't seem to like that idea so we went down to look for it....luckily it landed on one of the suspended walkways we didn't need to go walking through the forest and risk getting kicked out of the place.


We spent the afternoon at the resort pool and Mel and I signed up for an all day snorkelling/diving trip to the Reef.