After diving we were ready for a change of scenery and Port Douglas provided that.  It lies next to an amazing rainforest area called Daintree Rainforest in a section in the north called Cape Tribulation.  This was wild country at it's finest.  Lush wetlands, vines that grow forever, different rainforest animals and lots of exploring to do. We drove up there, crossed over on a car ferry and went for a day hike through the forests.  We saw lots of cassowary warning signs, but not a single bird.

Here are my friends hiking through through the forest. At one point we came to a fresh water river and took a refreshing dip.