Cairns to Daintree Village

I moved on from the Frosts today. They were great hosts and I enjoyed meeting them. We got along like a house on fire, which theirs probably is with the luck they had this morning. The washing machine broke, car wouldn't start and a pipe burst.

I rode up the coast to Daintree Village. It is village is the true sense of the word. If you say you live in a village because it only has about 5000 people then it isn't a village. This place has this camp, a pub/general store across the road and a crocodile tour company. There are houses dotted around up in the forest.

The ride up between Cairns and Port Douglas was phenomenal. Right along the coast and through the rainforests. I recorded it.

What I'm going to share isn't going to be that good. The best I can do is 720p. I had to drop the sound because of wind noise, which really sucks because the big thumper would've given the video a sense of speed that both the video and reality lacked. I also just included a fairly random 5 minutes from the 40 minute video.

Also, I can't upload it to the blog directly, so it is on YouTube, so it might get blocked because I added music in place of the wind noise.

After setting up here I went for an afternoon croc cruise. We saw three, plus a bunch of birds and a water dragon.

I'm not even going to bother uploading the rest of the birds. Unless it's a cassowary who really cares.

I went over to the pub this afternoon for dinner and then spent ages searching for my card reader so I could transfer the various files to my phone. Didn't even get around to getting the drone videos. They aren't that good. There is a crocodile that lives on the other side of the river from the camp so I'll try to buzz her tomorrow.


I'm here tonight and tomorrow night, then I'm going to camp at Noah's Beach for 2 nights. It is a national park camp so it's virtually free. Then I'll try my luck on my first bit of extended off road along the Bloomfield Track. I've talked to a few people who say it is in good condition and there is only one water crossing that isn't too deep. Should be fun!