Hello all!
I am a bit behind on the blogs since I had trouble with my Ayers Rock photos. I am going to be posting a couple in the next week to try to catch up.
So we flew to Cairns through a thunderstorm. The foreshadowing of our flight should have been obvious but I didn't clue in. Rain has pursued us for two weeks. Rain in Cairns was so harsh that it hurt to be in it and would soak you within seconds. Thankfully it occurred at night for the most part. Unfortunately it hindered us from participating in some of the activities that we planned. 
So instead of being trapped in our hostel we headed out to the Port Douglas to travel to the Daintree rain forest. Arriving in Port Douglas we explored the one street town and all it had to offer (which seemed to be o
(picture of Allen Rachel and I)
nly shops and cafes) then headed home and got caught in a torrential rain storm; our belongings took days to dry out. We met a Canadian (Alan) and an Irish girl (Rachel) at our hostel and we travelled with them on the tour of the rain forest the next day. The tour we took was with Tropic Explorer. We had a good time, our tour guide was knowledgeable and fun and we saw many very interesting places. We went to the Daintree river where we went up and down looking for wild life including crocodiles, snakes and birds.
We saw some baby crocs and a tree snake there. After that our bus broke down so we spend a while waiting for another bus to get us and take us to an extra long lunch at Cape Tribulation while they fixed it. I checked out the beach while we were here. Though this could have dampened our spirits we had a good time and our tour guide was very good 
at keeping us happy and making the best of things. On our way back down from Cape Tribulation we walked through a beautiful rain forest and learned about the local plants an animals, some of which ate us alive as seen in the picture below. 
So instead of being trapped in our hostel we headed out to the Port Douglas to travel to the Daintree rain forest. Arriving in Port Douglas we explored the one street town and all it had to offer (which seemed to be o(picture of Allen Rachel and I)
nly shops and cafes) then headed home and got caught in a torrential rain storm; our belongings took days to dry out. We met a Canadian (Alan) and an Irish girl (Rachel) at our hostel and we travelled with them on the tour of the rain forest the next day. The tour we took was with Tropic Explorer. We had a good time, our tour guide was knowledgeable and fun and we saw many very interesting places. We went to the Daintree river where we went up and down looking for wild life including crocodiles, snakes and birds.
We saw some baby crocs and a tree snake there. After that our bus broke down so we spend a while waiting for another bus to get us and take us to an extra long lunch at Cape Tribulation while they fixed it. I checked out the beach while we were here. Though this could have dampened our spirits we had a good time and our tour guide was very good 
at keeping us happy and making the best of things. On our way back down from Cape Tribulation we walked through a beautiful rain forest and learned about the local plants an animals, some of which ate us alive as seen in the picture below. 
We also wen to Mossman Gorge where we could have gone swimming if the rain hadn't swollen the river. Again mosquitoes snacked on us while we had a stroll along the rushing water. Alan, Rachel, Devon and I returned to Port Douglas for the night where we encountered a large dinosaur.
(picture of the Dinosaur)
(picture of the Dinosaur)
The next day we returned to Cairns to discover we were still trapped in the city due to the highway flooding so we booked the earliest flight out of there to Townsville, unfortunately it cost us an arm and a leg. 
From Townsville we hopped the ferry to Magnetic Island. I will save that wildlife filled story for another blog post! I hope you all stayed dryer than I did!
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