The bus journey up to Cape Tribulation was good fun as the bus driver / guide was one of the most enthusiastic people i've ever met. For all the journey he never shut up talking about animals that he'd rescued and how by the end of the day we were all going to do some tree hugging - literally!

First off he took us to a remote river for a quick dip. The place looked like a tropical paradise and the water was as warm as a bath. After diving in and sunbathing on some rocks for an hour or so we left to go have dinner on the beach. We stopped at a supermarket first to pick up some supplies, and decided on some pots of potato salad. However after ariving on this idealic beach (the same one as is on the picture for this blog) we realised we had no fork to eat it with. It ended up with us eating the potato salad with small twigs we found. It felt like we were on Castaway or something, except from the plastic tubs ofcourse.

Me and Jack had opted to do a two day trip and therfore spend a night in the rainforest. Luckily there was actually a really nice hostel where we made friends with some welsh. Unknown to us at the time but we would keep meeting these girls at pratically every stop down the east coast. As the heavens open at precisely 2 O'clock every day in the rainforest, and it was the start of the wet season there wasn't a great deal to d that afternoon. It rained amazingly hard and even running the 10 metres from our room to the toilets got you drenched from head to foot, like you'd just jumped in the swimming pool. With that in mind we thought we might as well get wet so played pool volleyball. This was until a deafening thunderstorm came and the barmaid made us get out!

That night we were booked onto a night walk, but unfortunately we had both forgotton to bring any other shoes apart from flip flops so we wern't aloud to go ahead with it due to rough terrain and the possibility of snakes and scorpions biting our toes! I made up for it the next morning however where i went on a nice walk down the beach admiring the only place in the world where rainforest meets reef. We also went for two more jungle walks that afternoon on boardwalks, so no chance of being bitten. Being forgetful again though we didnt put any insect repellent on and spent the whole time being eaten alive by mossies. We played a game where we counted how many of them each oen of us could get, i'm sure it had reached into the hundreds by the time we returned. We also got taught a clever trick of how to get your own back on mossies. If you catch one biting you and you pull your skin apart it gets stuck there and cannot stop drinking your blood. Eventually it gets to bloated and explodes. Jack tried it and it did seem to work until a few minutes in his fingers slipped and he let it go, resulting in just one enourmous bite that would itch for days.

At the end of our second day we got back on the bus and headed back down south on the search of some Crocs.We were booked on for the two O'clock boat ride and ofcourse as usual the heavens opened. Luckily for us it was all worth it as we saw one huge croc several metres long lying on the back quiet high above the river protecting a nest. No money in the world would make me get out the boat at that time, you could tell immediately it was deadly killing machine!

Late that night we arrived backat Jayjays in Cairns for a few nights before catching the Premier Bus Down to our next stop, Townsville.