![]() So it is actually more dangerous to stay in Sydney with its funnelwebs than in the jungle of Cape Tribulation. This is the safest rainforest in the world! Poisonous snaked prefer open grassland and not the rainforest, and the only two species of poisonous spiders in Australia, the funnelweb and redback, do not live around here. In most of Cape Tribulation mobile phones do not work, only out on the point on the Cape or out on the ocean, also on the top of Noah Range along the main road. We don't have cots, and children are welcome as long as they do not stop other guests from enjoying the place. Some people tell me on their second day yes, you were right, not having believed me at all when I told them on arrival there are no mosquitoes.Ĭan we bring children, do you supply cots? Surprisingly enough the nights are mosquitoe free! And don't ask me how I did that, that's just the way it is, so enjoy! The house is all open and even at night with lights on no mosquitoes come in, there just aren't any around! We do get a few daytime mosquitoes in wetter times, but they are the type that likes to hover around without actually doing any real biting. The beach is straight down the road, to walk it will take you about 20 minutes, in a car no time at all. ![]() How far is Rainforest Hideaway from the beach? See the Daintree maps page for more info and driving directions. Keep yourself and especially the kids away from the water's edge if you wait here, crocodiles are quick and strong enough to drag horses in to the water so a child is an easy snack. The current return fare is $27.- per car(2017). This ferry runs up and down continuously from 6 am till midnight seven days a week. ![]() To reach Cape Tribulation you will have to cross the Daintree river with the cable ferry. if you are only going as far as Cape Tribulation you will not need a four wheel drive, the road has been sealed all the way since 2001 and there are bridges over the creeks, only if you plan to head further north on the coast road on the Bloomfield Track you will need one. In a world going more and more developed and busy the Daintree is an oasis of peace and greenery. The Daintree adjoins the Great Barrier Reef and UNESCO has recognized both as outstanding areas of scientific value and spectacular beauty and listed both the Daintree National Park and the Great Barrier Reef as World Heritage Areas. Some trees have been discovered that were previously thought to be extinct for millions of years! The Daintree rainforest contains many plants and animals that are rare, endangered, or live nowhere else than here. ![]() The Amazon rainforest might be more famous, but is "only" about 20 million years old. The Daintree contains some of the last surviving ancient rainforest, which according to the scientists has been virtually unchanged for at least 120 million years. In 1988 UNESCO declared Cape Tribulation National Park a World Heritage Area because of its outstanding value and beauty, once again local and state government protested to no avail. In 1981 the rainforests surrounding the privately owned land were declared Cape Tribulation National Park, under protest from local council and state government who wanted to keep it as a State Forest, so it would be available for logging. ![]() Marijuana growing, smoking and running around naked on the beaches were the main activities during this decade. In the 1970s Cape Tribulation was discovered by the hippies and it became the end of the London-Kathmandu-Cape Tribulation overland trail. If Cook had sunk his ship here then he never would have made it futher to claim Australia for the British and the continent would have remained as New Holland. It has a colourful history, known as Kurangee by Aborigines for thousands of years and renamed Cape Tribulation by James Cook as this was the place where his tribulations (trouble) began. north of the Daintree river in the Daintree National Park. ![]()
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