We got up, got ready and had some breakfast and headed out towards the Daintree. We we're all excited and the car was full of stuff. About 2 hours into our journey we heard a loud bang on the windscreen as a camper van coming the other way had thrown a stone up from its wheels. When we stopped Hannah saw a crack in the windscreen about 4cm in legth. So a good start to our adventures in to the rainforest. We got a ferry over a river to get to Cape Tribulation, its was exciting and took about 5 minutes and then there we were in the oldest rainforest in the world. It was spectacular and we spent the afternoon looking aroiund and trying to find somewhere to stay.
One looked like shed in the forest and you shared the showers with bugs and anything else out there. We decided to get out of there as soon possible. We found a place called Deep Forest Lodge and its looked great. We had our own balcony, BBQ and porch swing. It was a self contained cottage type place in the middle of the rain forest. So we decided to have a BBQ for our dinner that night and of course a few beers.
We went for a walk along the beach, where the forest meets the sea, we started looking for coconuts, but couldn't find any.
At our lodge we put the BBQ on and drank some beers and the girls chilled out on the porch swing. We sat there all night chatting, eating and drinking. The barbie was good and later when it was dark the neighbours came home and Emma saw a black and white possum in the bushes in front of us!! A little later the neighbours puppy escape and came to say hello and Emma thought it was the possum, but Hannah said it was a puppy and we laugh coz that must have been what Emma saw earlier. (the puppy was small and black and white). We planned to going walking in the forest after a few beers, but when we turned the lights off, it was pitch black. The blackest we ever seen, we couldn't even see each other. So we decided not to go and had another beer.
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Hello you two,
It is almost midnight but I want to try to reply to all of your bloggs if i can.
The lodge you stayed in sounds good.
That book I mentioned earlier was called "Where the forest meets the sea." It is about Australia now and way back in the time of the Ancient rainforests.
I bet having a BBQ in a pitch black forest was rather scary.
Take care.
Ma and Pa
I've never been to a proper rain forest before but the oldest one in the world must be brilliant. I think you should be more adventurous in your choice of accommodation! Smiled when you wrote about the drop toilets earlier too, I bet they have them in the rainforest. They had them at the Leeds festival and I think you should have been grateful you couldn't see the bottom!! I hope you weren't looking for coconuts like the ones you buy in supermarkets!
Sounds as though you were in a real wilderness area, must have been exciting.
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