The drive is along the coast... just in front of the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is the biggest coral reef in the world. This reef has 260 kilometres of lenght and it is said that here lives the biggest animal in the world!
The Great Barrier Reef was discovered by Captain James Cook in 1768 when he got stuck in it with his boat. James Cook, from the royal English navy, was the one who discovered Hawai for the first time too!! Such a guy! He deserves his picture here! hahahaha
The Great Barrier Reef is visited for thousand of people around the world every year due to the huge diversity of biological live and the easy access to snorkle or dive in its waters.
This area (with an extension of 34,870,000 ha) is protected by the Maritime Park of the Great Barrier Reef and it was declared Human Heritage by the UNESCO in 1981.
The experts reckon that you can find here around 1,500 different kind of fishes, 4,000 kind of mollusc and 400 of corals!!!
This reef is a very sensitive beauty and has been hardly affected by the global warming that the planet suffers nowadays...it seems that the corals are very sensitives to the water temperature changes.
We arrived to Port Douglas in the afternoon and we looked for a campsite...
and here we go... who does remember how to pitch a tent??hahahaha Yeah... it seems very easy but... it took us a while to put it up! The floor was very rocky so to hammer the picks there was impossible!!
But we sorted out.. more or less... a little bit twisted... but it is up!!! We just need to pray for no rain or wind or otherwise we will have to sleep in the car!! :-)
Important note
Guys.... 2 Rapitenques Around the world are suffering a very serious crisis Post Asia... in Australia everything is soooooooooo expensive!!strong>
Yeah.. we can complain but we don't have any other choice so we need to get use to this prices :-) Behiind are the meals for a Euro or the accommodation for 2 Euros... here.. .the Australian dolar has wings... as the Euro has at home and as soon as you cash it from the ATM is gone!!!
Even with the tragic crisis that we were suffering, we managed to look for a boat trip to go to the Great Barrier Reef and do some snorkeling :-) It was great! A suunny day, lots of different fishes of different colours, blue turquoise water, corals.... it was worth it!
Snorkeling is cool but look at how you look with the mask.. we look like Bert and Ernie! hahaha
We have never been around so many kind of fishes!! At lunch time we came back to the boat and we saw sharks!!! They weren't very big but I have to say that they were scary!! We don't have sharks at home!! Tuna and salmon are fine but sharks.....
The next day we decided to go to explore Daintree National Park on the way to Cape Tribulation.
Cape Tribulation has the biggest wet forest in Australia and the oldest one in the world. An ecosystem with microclimate with no rival around the world... and you want to see the animals here!!! Ants, birds, reptiles are huge!!!!! And lots of them that we have never seen before...:-)
To be honest the day was cloudy and rainy so we didn't get a chance to enjoy the beaches of Cape Tribulation. However, in some of them you can't swim coz there are crocodiles so... we didn't miss that much!! We were happy just to walk around.
...just check the pictures... some of them are not very good due to the weather ... but the place is very nice! All that nature beside the sea... jungle, river and ocean!
And with Cape Tribulation we just leave Port Douglas... now our trip continues... next stop.. Townsville. We'll explain you more from there!
Check some photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29210326@N07/?saved=1
See you soon!
Vane and Eva
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