After a quiet day recovering from our reef trip and spending quiet time at exposition at St Monica's we picked up a rental car on Saturday and drove up the scenic coast to Mossman Gorge. This attraction is managed by the local Aboriginal community and is a good example of empowerment through local enterprise.
The Mossman Gorge walk rivals any other in the Daintree area and is accessed by a shuttle bus from the information centre. We walked the 90 min circuit through dense rain forest greeted occasionally by the bush turkeys that frequent the bush. It felt very much like walking the rain forest tracks in NZ but the flora was more tropical and there was much less birdsong.
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| Beach at Port Douglas |
On the way back from Mossman we took a detour into Port Douglas which is full of swank resorts and upmarket shopping areas. It is not called Little Toorak for nothing but we enjoyed our lunch there and the view from the lookout overlooking the beach.
Closer to Cairns we turned off at the Redlynch ring road and traveled past Matthew and Cathy's former home at Bayview Heights and then to to Crystal Cascades - a steep gorge near Cairns notable for a number of water falls and swimming holes. I took a swim in one of the pools - beautiful and it brought back happy childhood memories of swimming at fresh water pools on the
Maerewhenua River near Tokarahi especially our favourite spot just above the Dansey's Pass motor camp.
After a quiet day recovering from our reef trip and spending quiet time at exposition at St Monica's we picked up a rental car on Saturday and drove up the scenic coast to Mossman Gorge. This attraction is managed by the local Aboriginal community and is a good example of empowerment through local enterprise.
The Mossman Gorge walk rivals any other in the Daintree area and is accessed by a shuttle bus from the information centre. We walked the 90 min circuit through dense rain forest greeted occasionally by the bush turkeys that frequent the bush. It felt very much like walking the rain forest tracks in NZ but the flora was more tropical and there was much less birdsong.
Closer to Cairns we turned off at the Redlynch ring road and traveled past Matthew and Cathy's former home at Bayview Heights and then to to Crystal Cascades - a steep gorge near Cairns notable for a number of water falls and swimming holes. I took a swim in one of the pools - beautiful and it brought back happy childhood memories of swimming at fresh water pools on the Maerewhenua River near Tokarahi especially our favourite spot just above the Dansey's Pass motor camp.
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