Cape Tripulation (Jul 04-05)

Next day I went on a trip to Cape Tripulation to experience the Tropical North of Queensland.

Cape Trip is as far north as the common backpacker gets. Although there are a few towns further north, there is not much to see and so almost no one goes there. Hence I have finished the East coast now and can tick that on my itinerary too.

On the first day I got picked up at my accommodation and we drove to the Daintree National Park. The “scenic” drive there was really nice. According to the guide this road is second best after the Great Ocean Road.

First up was a cruise on the Daintree River to spot some crocs in the wild. We managed to see quite a few. Biggest one was about 2.5 metres lying on the bank and taking a nap. It was a cloudy day and so most of the crocodiles were in the water rather than taking a sun bath on the banks. There are supposed to be about 80-100 crocs in that river. 

Daintree River

Croc lying on the bank

Cairns (Jun 26 - Jul 3)

It’s hard to describe how you feel returning from a 3-day-trip with 11 dives. You feel more than knackered and so it took me some days to recover. Basically every muscle in my body hurt and I would never have expected it to be that strenuous.

So I took it easy, relaxed for some days, updated this blog and watched the 8^th season of 24.

After some days Suzi checked in at the YHA and so we brought each other up to speed what we have been up to since Rockhampton. We sat down and the next time I looked at my watch it was 4.5 hours later. She was also on Maggy but stayed at the other side of the island to do the open water course. Unfortunately she left for Asia some days later and I will most likely not see her on this trip again *sob.

The next day we went for a walk on the esplanade and noticed some ukulele players on a stage. It was the 2010 Cairns Ukulele festival. 

Festival banner, look at those sponsors. Accor and KPMG are apparently everywhere ;-)