Cape Tribulation from the beach.

A tea plantation the only one we know of in Australia.

No not ferry across the Mersey, rather the ferry across the Daintree river on the way to Cape Tribulation

God's abundance of lovely flowers just growing wild.

A bush Turkey tries to scrounge food from who and where he can.

A large Lace Monitor Lizard has climbed a tree and is sunning himself. He was hard to find, this picture is worth zooming.

One of the interesting sights as we walked along the board walk.

Fabulous palms make a canopy while a creeper winds its way across the board walk.

Mud Skipper's on the beach by the Mangroves at Cape Tribulation.

The beach on the South side of Cape Tribulation (the Cape was named by Captain Cooke)

A fallen tree in the rainforest.

Part of a lovely board walk through the rain forest in the Daintree.

Cocoa plants growing alongside the Mossman sugar mill

Some very ineresting trees entwined with creepers in Mossman.

A view of the Daintree river mouth seen from the road on the way to Cape Tribulation.

Ian checks out the Molasses, how sweet it is!

Centrifuges separating sugar from mollasses

Sugar dryers.

Sugar conveyor rolling screw.

25Kg bags of raw sugar sold only to Australian restraunts.

We visit Mossman sugar mill the smallest in Australia. Here the chopped harvested cane is tipped in to begin the process.

Then into the shredder where the plant wear is very high.

Roll clarifier and below separater

Bush Curlew living in the caravan park at Ellis beach.

A view of the island's on the headland taken from Ellis beach where we were camped.


Ian rescues a baby skink before it is trodden on at the caravan park in Port Douglas, he was given a home in a tree by the motorhome.

A view from the Sky gondola as we descend it is too spectactular to do justice with a photograph.

Another view from the descending gondola; awesome.

Ian does his show to the audience at Cairns Holiday Park as a fund raiser for the Royal Flying Doctors Service. The night included a barbicue and was a great success raising over $600. Well done to Jon and Marlene the park owners who organised and put it on. The picture is a collage for anyone who is wondering.

Baron falls on the train ride to Karanda.

Another view from the train looking towards Cairns

The Baron river from the Sky Rail gondola

The Gondola's cross above the conopy top of the forest.

The Big Mango; what more can one say we are in tropical north Queensland.

After a day of trying Ian catches a pidgeon, why?

The poor little felow had got his foot wrapped in cotton and a stick which stopped him from standing properly and was cutting the circulation to its foot. With care we were able to remove it and return it to its normal life just a little bewildered as to what had gone on.

The sugar train ride at the Big Pineapple

A Sugar cane plantation on the way to Kuranga

The scenic train ride to Kuranga