For someone with a great fondness for both trees and water, Cape Tribulation was an obvious destination. It is the only place in the world where two World Heritage areas exist side by side: the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. I was desperate to see both.
Given that I don't drive, the only way for me to get up there was to join a tour. There are plenty of one day options that go from Port Douglas. I picked the only one that would allow me to split it in two: go up with the morning of one tour, spend a couple of nights up there and come back with the afternoon of another tour.
The tour with better than I'd expected, largely due to an excellent guide. The first activity was a croc-spotting cruise on the Daintree River. I didn't learn anything more than on the Mary River cruise during the Top End Tour, but we did get a good look at both a very big (4m) croc and a tiny baby one, which was cool. And the river itself was no bad place to spend an hour:
The next stop was for an interpretive rainforest walk. The forest here was denser than on Hinchinbrook and although I really getting into the thick of it on the Island, as opposed to a boardwalk here, it was good to have a guide to tell us about the different trees and animals around us:
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