Looking for the Crocs or have you seen the flat people

October 23rd already! Where has the time gone but we were off again to the Daintree Wilderness and Cape Tribulation. Our first stop on the adventure took us to the Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary to have morning tea with the birds, crocs, roos, koalas, frogs, snakes and bats. Man can those roos drink the tea! We got some great photos of the animals and I'm not talking about the ones on the bus.

mom with joey hanging out of her pouch, heading back from tea

After our refreshment stop we moved on to Mossmann Gorge where we hiked through the rainforest and our guide told us how all the plants and trees fight to get to the sunshine. He also told us how some vines use the large trees as hosts until they get started and eventually choke out the host tree. We saw examples of that in the forest. The process takes several hundreds of years to complete.

We continued on to the Daintree River and crossed it on the bus using a cable-driven ferry. We noticed all the warning signs about crocodiles (I think this is where we may have lost the flat ones.) We scoured the banks of the river hoping to spot the salt water crocs but none were sighted. We were told the day before they saw a croc that was over six meters long near the ferry crossing. If you want to know what that is in feet here is the conversion formula 6X300-457+631/72= really big croc or almost 20 feet. After we crossed the Daintree river we headed up to Cape Tribulation where we stopped for lunch and a walk on the beach. The beaches were really nice but we didn't have enough time to go swimming with the crocs and marine stingers (jelly fish). Several people took advantage of the beach and the swim. The bus was less crowded on the way home. No just kidding!

Soaking up the rays on the beach

News flash: croc dies from choking on paper

On our way back we stopped at the Daintree river and took a river cruise. We were looking for crocs, snakes, frogs and birds. You could always tell the birds that were slow on the takeoff from the river. They were the ones with one leg. The guide did tell us to keep our hands, arms, feet and heads inside the boat. He said the crocs can leap out of the water to snag a meal out of the air such as birds, snakes and frogs on limbs, flat people etc. We did see snakes, birds, frogs and just the head of one croc. After the cruise we were welcomed back on dry land with afternoon tea and back on our bus for the treck home. We had fantastic sights, met great people and that's no croc!

Can you see the croc? He's looking at you!

He paid us a visit on our boat on the river

Hey guys we can come out now, I think the boat is gone!