First stop was Mossman Gorge where we took a long walk - nothing really exciting but looked like a nice place to take a swim.

Taking a swim was not an option in the Daintree River where we took an Electric Boat Tour. The waters are filled with salties - we saw several of them lying on the river benches. Our tour guide told us that a woman had tried to take a dip in the refreshing water in the mid 1980's (in fact she hadn't got into the water yet). Bad idea for her, but the crocodile probably enjoyed the gourmet lunch. Unfortunately humans are of a very revengeful nature, so the entire crocodile population in the area was eradicated after that. Slowly, but steadily the crocodiles are coming back.

But we saw not only crocodiles. Many birds live by the river as well. The Kingfisher is one of the more interesting ones we spotted.

There was no time to go all the way up to Cape Tribulation that day so we just crossed the river and went straight for Crocodylus - our accommodation for the night. It's a backpacker in the middle of a rainforest - beautiful setting. All five of us played UNO the entire evening, until the generator was turned off and the lights went out.

First thing on the 'menu' next morning was the Daintree Rainforest Environmental Centre - a rather nice example of a visitors centre with a really good guided tour of the rainforest. We were particularly amazed when the guide told us about the stinging tree. It's self defense consists of millions and millions of tiny little glass like hairs on all its exposed parts. These hairs each contain a little bit of venom that gives you great pain if injected into you skin - not for a minute, not for an hour, not for a day or even a week, but for up to eight months it will hurt each time you touch the area where you have been stung - unless you get all the tiny hairs removed quickly (last time our guide had been stung it took his wife eight hours to remove all the hairs with a set of tweezers and a magnifying-glass). Stay away from the stinging tree!

Before we reached the cape itself we made stop at a beach where we found a lot of coconuts. We studied the art of opening them, which actually is quiet hard work if you don't have a machete. Later we found out that this beach very appropriately is called 'Coconut Beach'.

The Cape Tribulation experience itself was rather relaxing. We sat down at the beach with some take-away food we had organised and had lunch. The crabs and octopuses (there were a lot of octopussies on the beach as well :-) that were abound between the rocks in the water were studied thoroughly.

The most amazing thing that day happened at the last beach, slightly north of Cape Tribulation. Dirk, Lene, and Linda were getting ready to get a group shot taken when some guy walked into the picture. It wasn't just some guy, it was Morten - a good friend and study colleague of Dirks. Funny things happen!

On the way back to Cairns we dropped Michael of in Port Douglas where he was planning to stay for a few days or maybe even a week before going back to school in Sydney.

Jason had once again bought meat and we made - once again - Nachos for starters.