Day 206

21 August 2013

Last night we were awoken by a small animal (tree kangaroo, bandicoot, large rat this is still debatable) eating our jalapeño and cheddar corn chips (really nice chips that were introduced to us by Joel's aunty Helen)! We got out of the tent, shined lights in its face, threw a pair of thongs at it and it wasn't giving the chips up! We gave up and let it go for it and went back to sleep while it rustled around in our bin.

Today we were just going to chill out and have a look around Cape Tribulation. There isn't a great deal to do here in the way of extra exciting activities but this is the home of the jungle surfing but we gave it a miss this trip. The other thing there is lots of here is walks so we had a little look at a few of these.

First was 200m north of our campground at a gorgeous beach lined with coconut palm trees. There is also a boardwalk here that takes you up to look over the beach. The rainforest here of course is spectacular and well worth a look on any walks.

We then did a few more boardwalk walks south of our campground which were nice also. There are lots of maps around to show you what you can do and it really isn't a big town so you won't miss it if you just drive up each road. We stopped in at Mason's which sells emu, kangaroo, camel, buffalo and crocodile burgers but gave it a miss and checked out their swimming hole instead. Gold coin donation and you can check this hole out... Look it was nothing spectacular but if its a really hot day and you need a swim this is a safe spot and there is a rope swing!

This afternoon we booked in to do a tour and tasting at an exotic fruit farm. So we headed to the farm after having a few beers at the pub at PK's and sat down to a mini presentation and tasting of 10 exotic fruits.

Well there was a mixed bag here, there was some we liked and others we absolutely disliked! Durian was one we disliked! It stank like smelly socks and of tasted just as bad!

They gave us a tour of the farm and if you are interested in exotic fruit or fruit in genera you will probably like it but for $25 it wasn't the best value tour we have been on. But interesting none the less.

Afternoon spent at the bar for dinner and then met some boys that had just been up the cape and were having a fire at their campsite so spent the night chatting to them before bed.

Carly & Joel

 

 

 

 

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