Hefty amount of rainfall last night!

Dave didn’t sleep too well so Daisy’s on brekkie duty – a filter coffee and to the BBQ for some sausage sandwiches

Takes longer than anticipated but we check out and get away in reasonable time

Off to Daintree Tea Company – it’s not looking too open so we move on

Daintree Ice Cream Co next – also closed… let’s try another

Floraville Ice Cream Factory is open but not manned; it’s also being sold – looks like the owner of 30ish years, Betty, is trying to retire ????

In the car, we go back to Daintree Fan Palm Farm which sorts us a coffee and a morning activity

The shop has a ticketed boardwalk just behind where you wonder to see some Giant Fan Palms; we go for it and try and avoid all the spider webbs!

Treees along the walk have big buttress roots and we go over a creek where they, like most of the waterways around here, don’t recommend going for a dip

Our day carries on going over the ferry, back down South, and into Mossman

We’ve got enough time so we buy a couple shuttle tickets that take us to the Mossman Gorge National Park

The board, as we arrive, tells us a some wildlife to look out for

There’s a lookout and a beach – a Brush Turkey makes an appearance

We go across the Rex Creek Suspension Bridge and find the start of a 2.4km rainforest circuit track – we venture on it

Humbling to be in the midsts of rainforest; we stroll till about half way and get the wrong path for a little – it’s not in vain though, we get a very lucky glance of one of the rare critters around here

The Boyd Rainforest Dragon is the only thermo dynamic lizard (warm blooded) in the world and has just come out of hibernation as the rains have been intense recently

Carrying on, the path leads us through a creek and muddy areas so safe to say we’re a little mucky by the end ????

We make some hasty sandwiches in the back of the van, as we’re starving being late having lunch today, and then set off South

We’re heading back to Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures as our ticket allowed a re-visit within 3 days and we missed most of the animals with the talks in the first sitting

Round to the “Freshy” waters – they have a ri-donk-ulous amount of fresh water Crocs here – you can tell with their thin mouth/nose

They have American Alligators too as well as Monitor Lizards, a Komodo Dragon and a huge Reticulated Python

There’s also a section called Gondwana (dedicated to the historic landmass that Aus got all it’s amazing animals from, like no where else)

Here, they have free roaming Red Legged Pademelons, Rock Wallabies and Kangaroos in addition to some active Hairy Nosed Wombats

They have more animals here but they’re starting to close up the area – this was the part of Hartley’s that suffered greatly from the recent cyclone

It actually part flooded so they had to move all the animals up high – however… some of them have other ideas as a Rock Wallaby cleared the fence several times to escape!

We enjoy other segments and get another feel of a Koalas butt, with the last talk of the day, before heading off

On the way back, we pop by the Crocodile Viewpoint, over the Mowbray River – no luck at spotting any as they prefer mornings and low tides, apparently

Time to check in to our stay for the night – Paradise Links Resort sorts us a very decent stay on a budget

Straight to the pool to chill from the heat – we have a dip in all four as well as playing with some of their inflatables ????

We spot a teenie tiny frog friend visiting the resort on the way back

Back to the room to get ready and we head out – dinner is only a little walk and we’ve got a torch from K Mart that helps us with the lack of street lights

It also helps us spot another Cane Toad

Dinner is at The Beach Shack La Cucina + Bar and we enjoy sharing two pizzas, a diavola and a margarita

Stuffed, we make our way back catching several more Cane Toads making a racket and even a couple of skulking Curlews in the dark

Time for bed!