The car rental guy came to pick us up from our apartment and went back with him to their office to complete the paperwork and we were then off on our day trip to the Daintree rainforest.
The route was an estimated 3 hours one way.
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| Sign at Mason's Grill :) |
We crossed the towns of Port Douglas, Mossman on Highway 1 and 44. Closer to the rainforest, we crossed the river on this ferry that took us across into rainforest area and from there the road was much more winding and narrow. We stopped at the Floravilla Icecream place on the way for some homemade icecream. We had mango, and black sapote (among other flavors) - both of these fruits are grown in Australia.
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| View from the tallest tree canopy - about 260 ft |
We then came across Mason's Grill for some lunch before our ziplining appointment at 1:30pm. However, the cook was all alone and there wasn't enough time to serve us within the half hour- 40 mins we had kept for lunch. So we drove over to the Jungle Safari centre -meeting point for our ziplining adventure - a little earlier. The guide picked us up from the centre and took us to the starting point in the rainforest.
We enjoyed ziplining between tall mahogany and other trees - overall a couple of hours of thrilling, fast ziplines.
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| Amazing pebble towers |
We started our drive back home soon after and were back in Cairns by 7:30-8pm. On the way, we stopped at Cape Tribulation for the view and a vista point on our left where there were these innumerable pebble towers and we stopped to make one too.
We dropped off our car and walked back about 20 mins to our apartment.
Ended our day with an exotic meat dinner at Raw Prawn on the Cairns Esplanade.
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