The ancient Daintree forest

is absolutely fantastic, even when you are only viewing it from ground level.  We crossed the Daintree River by ferry (the only way to get across it at this point) and headed north to Cape Tribulation.  What a place!!  We drove through here, literally, when we went on our trip to the Cape.  We have wanted to come back here for years and now we are here.  What a special feeling it was to walk through this ancient forest and see how nature is finely balanced, everything depending on everything else - for mutual survival.  It's absolutely gobsmacking!  There is so much beauty in so many forms, my mere descriptions cannot do it justice.  Perhaps the pics will, but I still feel that I cannot capture the essence, the spirit of this place.  I think that this ancient place challenges you to understand it and respect it, but that's just me.  I have seen and experienced a lot of bush and wild places, but this and very few others actually leave an emotional impression on you.  Uluru, the sandstone gorges of the Kimberley, the Victorian High Country under snow are such places.  Enough of my musings, here are some pics:

Going across the Daintree Ferry in Pete's Benz........

The mouth of the Daintree River, where it flows into the Pacific Ocean.

The root buttresses of a very, very old tree.

A view through this ancient forest.

Eerything depends on everything else to survive.

A lonely little flower, doing its best to propagate and survive.

The canopy is amazing..........

Don't knock the trees over, people can walk around them.  The boardwalks are excellent.

There are some dags around.................the bottom diagram is supposed to be a speed bump sign.

Beauty abounds everywhere.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust................

The fan palms are huge and errr... fantastic (yeh, I know, you don't have to actually say it).

Watch your head, M, low hanging vines.  Anyone for a Tarzan act?  Not M, of course, she more Jane type person.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're too young.

This is what all the fuss was about - Cape Tribulation.

This Monitor could not have cared less about the ten or so people looking at him and trying to photograph him, we were in HIS place and could not care less about a few humans.

I met these people....................

Trib beach from a different perspective.

I took waaay more pics, but just cannot download any more tonight.  I will post them all up on my Picasa page when I get back, before I start building an aircraft, but after I finish cleaning the caravan and after I do the workshop floor..........................promise.

Gotta go to bed and sleep, now.  Off to Cooktown via the Bloomfield Track tomorrow.  It is a great trip, the last time I drove it was in Growler on the way to the Cape.  I am really looking forward to getting Max dirty - at last.

Until tomorrow night or maybe sometime after, depends when we get back.

Hoo roo.