Australia Photos – Daintree Rainforest

The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest near Daintree, Queensland, on the coast, north of Cairns in tropical Australia. At around 1200 square kilometers the Daintree is the largest continuous area of rainforest on the Australian mainland. Part of the forest is protected by the Daintree National Park and drained by the Daintree River.

I don’t know what kind of bird this is but they make amazing hanging nests.

The Daintree River

Our Solar Powered boat

A cable ferry, very cool!

Tea fields, I got to try some at lunch and it was really tasty.

Watch out for Cassowaries! They are endangered and 30 out of the 50 left in this world live in the Daintree Rainforest.

Cape Tribulation – The area that gave Captain John Cook so much trouble.

Large poisonous spider…it’s said that the female is the largest one and that there are twenty little red male spiders to one female spider. When the female spider dies one of the male spiders changes it’s sex and grows in size to that of a female spider. Crazy huh?

These are the birds that made that strange hanging nest from earlier. The male has the blue chest to impress the female with.

This flower grows on trees and the leaves are edible. I tried one and it tasted like lettuce.

This is an ant nest. They hold it together with their dried saliva to create a cup to catch their water when it rains. Apparently if you touch their bright green bum to your tongue it tastes like orange sherbet. I didn’t try it, but I got to wear a few ants then Chantelle tried it and then flung the ants at me! haha!

This is a Cassowary. Look them up! They are pretty impressive endangered birds. Luckily I got to see two that day.

We got to eat lunch in the rain forest at a bench and canopy like this. It was such a unique experience.

Fan Palm Tree

They were impressive and some could span the length from your finger tip on the left hand to the right hand while your arms are stretched out. Massive leaves!

As cheesy as this is…this was one of my favourite moments of my trip. It was so cool to see the young life of a tree. I remember reading about this stuff in school, but it’s a totally different & beautiful thing to see it.