The last two nights of our road trip we spent in the Daintree National Park, and that was so beautiful it's worth a whole blog post.
On our way up we took a small detour to Shannonvale Tropical Fruit Winery, who makes their wine using fruits instead of grapes. And they were actually very good wines! And the views from the nearby hill was stunning. Here we also met a 75-year-old women who was originally from Finland but who had been living abroad since she was 15. Last year she climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro! A real iron-granny!
To enter Daintree you have to cross the Daintree river with a ferry. And the way the landscape changes during that 300m ferry ride is amazing. First you are surrounded by sugar cane fields and then you are suddenly in the middle of the rainforest!
Daintree is one of the oldest rainforests in the world. And it was amazing. So versatile with a lot of different plants and animals, including some very loud flying foxes (very big bats).
And so photogenic!
We were also camping next to a nice, long and quiet beach. There were like a thousand small crabs on the beach who all made these patterns with pearls of sand. So all the darker areas on the sand you can see in the pictures are all just sandpearls.
We didn't see any crocodiles during our road trip but we did taste them in a burger and a croc-o-dog (hot dog).
And just as we were about to leave Daintree we spotted a cassowary with its' baby!
Then it was time to follow the beautiful coastal road a little bit back south. We stopped at Port Douglas for a last campervan lunch and a swim.
Exactly 4234 km later we arrived in Cairns, just as scheduled. Goodbye Jucy van! We had such a great time driving around with you! Maybe we'll see you again!
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