Lost and found

After our adventures on the high seas we started our least leg north on the east coast. We drove up to port douglas as Clairebear had been raving about this big fish that we had to see. So we turn up at this bar and have to wait 30mins for some guy to throw some big fish remains into the sea to be eaten by a bigger fish (called george the groper). If you can imagine the scene it was basically about one hundred people gathered around the edge of a jetty, with lex and I firmly at the back, unable to see anything. We'd got there nice and early, and even thought we had a good spot picked out, but good old george thought he'd get right into the only corner that we couldn't see. The place even has big screens set up for such an eventuallity, but even these weren't pointing in the right direction!



Verdict: Sorry claire, but it george wasn't playing ball.

After Port Douggie which was lovely, we drove up to cape tribulation and the daintree rainforest to spend a couple of days in the 'proper tropics'

The area is lovely with proper rainforest to walk around in (although you do have to be wary of cassowarys and crocs). It really feels like being in the jungle, with giant ferns and palm trees above you and swing bridges across canyons and beautiful gorges plus some proper tropical spiders including a big golden orb spider that looked as big as your head! We walked along the beach at cape tribulation, where the rainforest meets the sea, and even had ago at cracking open a coconut (unfortunately it was rotten, and smelt really bad!).








We left the cape and port doug today and swung by the mountains to meet Chris and Linda and lovely Aussie couple who Claire came over to visit. They showed us around there lovely new home which they have nearly finished building and also gave us a load of free fruit from their garden.

Keeping with tradition we lost some more stuff. Adam lost one of his flip flops, and lex lost her anorak. But fortunately we found the flip flop two days later in the jungle, and after a 100km detour lex was reunited with her jacket. Now all we need to do is find a digital camera, a sleeping bag and some sunnies and we're even!

Next we're heading into the Atherton tablelands to look at some waterfalls before heading back to townsville to head inland. We are both really chuffed that we've driven as far north as we can in our little van. We'd both like to go all the way to the top, but you need to have some serious 4WD kit, regardless of how many ray mears episodes you've watched! In total we reckon we've put more than 8000km on the clock since sydney, which is more than we did in the whole of New Zealand!