So we are off on a road trip - and remembered that we have this blog, and thought we would write about our trip on here so people at home can see what we've been up to! We flew to Cairns from the Gold Coast on Monday, and picked up a campervan from a tiny place on the outskirts of Cairns - its a high top and although small is pretty comfy!
DAY ONE - Mossman Gorge, Daintree National Park and hunting for crocs!
On our first full day we drove north from Cairns into the Daintree National Park. This area is super tropical - we were in the rainforest most of the day.... Cairns is in a valley, and all around it are massive fields of sugar cane, then the mountains just rise up from the plains into the clouds. The cloud is low lying and dense - we drove through some of it. The mountains are densely covered with rainforest - its like an enormous Eden Project! Its very hot and humid, and the weather changes very quickly from tipping it down to bright sunshine. We went to Mossman Gorge, and walked through the rainforest to a river, which had the clearest water I've ever seen, then drove further into the national park to Daintree - we went over a tiny car ferry into the rainforest again.
The other thing we did was a boat trip up the Daintree river to look for crocodiles - we found three! One was an adult, 3 metres long, on the bank, about 4 metres from the boat.... first crocodile in the wild! We also saw 2 baby crocodiles about 1 year old sitting on logs. You start getting a bit paranoid and assume every log is a crocodile (or croco-log) (or logo-dile).
DAY TWO - Kuranda and Barron Falls
Today we went to Kuranda which is an Aboriginal village in the rainforest just east of Cairns. It started out as a place where Aboriginal people sold traditional items to tourists, and it was quite touristy. Lots of digeridoo's, boomerangs and "authentic Aboriginal art/baseball caps". But the old market was beautiful, little winding streets with rainforest all around. Layth wants me to write that he also had a good club sandwich in Kuranda.
After this, we drove to Barron Falls, which is at the top of a huge gorge, and it was very pretty.... it was raining lots here!
And thats it so far! But we'll keep you updated, a long way from home.....
xxxxx Sarah and Layth xxxxx
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