It rained a bit last night but not enough for a rain forest. After a quick breakfast we headed out for adventure. The owner of Lynchaven showed had earlier drew out her favorite day hikes and placed to see. We headed north to the first and worked our way down. She warned us to not go near or in any ocean water. This is because of croc's, big ones. I'm amazed at how may people casually ignore the warnings and put themselves and their children at risk. Natural selection at it's finest I suppose. The rainforest here is incredible, despite being 4 months without a decent amount of rain. You can see the dryness in the absence of river water and dried swamp land. When it does rain here it normally rains very hard. So hard that there is a good chance the lower lands will flood. Many many bridges have flood water indicators so you can determine if your vehicle can make it through. Lot's of vehicles here have high clearance and snorkels. We had neither and I often wondered how fun it would be to be pinned down with non passable roads for a few days. Either way after a bunch of hikes we decided to get a jump on heading south. The ferry timing was fortunate and we drove right through to Etty Bay https://www.facebook.com/ettybaycaravanpark/ This place was awesome. One night was once again not enough.
The view minutes from our resting spot
Those are rocks embedded on top of the speed bumps, eek
Let's hike pretty girl
Vinegar for stingers
So cool
Grab the jug and pour it on
Not for french fries, for your skin silly
Michelle looking for crocs
These crabs created patterns from circular bunches of sand they dug up.
Buddy contemplating where his friend KT is
He is saying he is tired of driving and want to goto Fifi
Michelle refused to go further. Croc warnings are heeded
This is a composting toilet on an epic scale.
After boy's and girls holding tanks ...
A two part system
Cassowary's are prevalent here
These huge bird eat fruit whole and poop out the seeds all over the place. They are excellent farmers
We saw them only in the zoo but they are so prevalent there are crossing signs all over the place
A roadside pit stop revealed a cool playground
Michelle is demonstrating a neat device
These things are cool. A structure supporting life on top of the tree surface
Mangrove root structures
Yay the ferry was soon coming
This thing is fast.
It's always worth stopping at just off the road lookouts
A town called Innisfail, lol
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