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Australie - Cairns

de Fredy, 28-11-2006

Where the Rain forest meets the Reef

Cape Tribulation, a 2 days long trip (200 AU$).
I’m the last to be picked up. I booked my package (cape tribulation + rafting day) the night before, my name wasn’t even in their pick up list. A few calls and “my” bus is in front of the hostel 50 min later. With my mouth plenty of muesli and yoghurt, I get my backpack and head to the rainforest, 2 hours north from Cairns.
Dee, our guide and driver, tells us about the history of the few towns we cross on our way there, about the rain forest, its conservation, vegetation and curious stories about tourist-wild animals encounters of “the third type”: a Belgium tourist trying to put more action on his pictures by splashing some water on a crocodile, that ended up beating his knee, or people getting persecuted by cassowaries (big birds typical from here).
First stop: Daintree river. We start hunting crocodile pictures. The incubation season has just started and we can only see 2 tiny ones floating. I want some action, fights, human struggling to save their lives, something!
Around 16h, we arrive to our hostels in the middle of the forest, 15 min walk from the beach. A beach that you just can see but no play with. Jellyfishes ans sharks have the monopoly of the waters. We make quickly a group for 1 hour walk tour, to a water hole. The 2 Germans, Englishmen, US and myself are not alert enough to see the hidden path leading to our final destination. The walk takes 2 hours but it allows us better to appreciate the nature of the forest.
At night, we find out that bringing your own alcohol and hiding in the rooms to drink it is not allowed. We decide to drink it openly in the terrace of the restaurant. I don’t know if someone notices it, but after 30 min. we are extremely noisy. This night, I go to bed around 2 am.

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