Day 4 to the daintree

Ready for some more driving. Normally when close to the Barrier Reef would never miss a trip to the outer reef, it is really a great wonder of the world moment when the tide drops and you can walk on beautiful reef in the middle of the ocean or snorkle or dive the side walls, its up there with the Grand canyon but I love it the best because I love to be in the ocean.
Having a car and the cold weather and rough sea and only 5 days we thought we will give the outer reef a miss and drive up the coast and see all the beaches like Port Douglas and up to the edge of the Daintree. Good decision as that coast was amazing the road goes mostly along the sea and it is a wonderful trip. Just that word Daintree evokes for my generation a magical place that was battled over between loggers and conservationists. I think the conservation people won, sort of but it looks like there are people carving out farms and houses on its edges. It is the largest rainforest in Australia. You feel its vastness and its life even at its edges. Next time we will stay at the lodge and walk in it more. They have an absailing run along the tree tops that would be great to go on. Where I live we have pockets of temperate rainforest and our suburb is on the foothills of the mountain so if we were aboringal we would be somewhere between salt water people and rainforest people. There are places that are more like home to you than other places. I can see why our friends feel at home in Cairns it is like a bigger bolder wilder version of our coast.
We drove as far as Daintree Village which is where the road ended at a river. You have to go up to Cape Tribulation to go up further. I would like to see Cooktown and Cape York but I think you need a four wheel drive for that. Must mention the cows they are Brahman cows and look a bit like Clem from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So I kind of thought of them as being able to have a chat to. I went to take some pictures of them and they came over to visit at the fence, they look very smart cows. You can see why dairy farmers love their cows.