From jungle tripping to angry farmers – Mossman Gorge and Innisfail

A couple days back by now, I went on a trip to Mossman Gorge, which  is a nice rainforest national-park near Port Douglas. Josie and Simon already told me that the bridge to the main part of the area was broken (which is the only acces road), but they also told me to go anyways since it would still be nice to visit. Unfortunately, the part before the bridge was very dissapointing: tons of tourists and hardly anything to see.

 Luckily, it’s dry season right now, and the river is very low. Not wanting to go back after having cycled for an hour to get there, I crossed the river by just walking through it (didn’t get eaten by a croc – yay!). After that it was truly amazing; there were all kinds of crazy stuff: All kinds of butterflies, huge birds, mushrooms in every colour of the rainbow, absurdly large trees, plants/trees with very strange looking purple leafs and more weird stuff like that. 

Strange purple leafs, very strange to just see hanging around

Seriously huge, but also just really strangely shaped trees

Unswimmable unfortunately; as there's a fair chance to get eaten if you do..

Not only was this part of the forest much more nice than the other part, also I was the only one there. I haven’t seen a single person in the 3 hours that I walked around there, which was very strange since a little earlier it was packed with peope. Thinking back on how easy it actually was to cross the river, I’m surprised nobody else did it. 

The bridge over the river, as can see the water was ridiculously low

 After that, I didn’t really do much anymore in Port Douglas. It’s only a small town, and there’s not actually a whole lot to do. They dó however have a 4-mile beach (which they’re very proud of, I think that in The Netherlands we have tons of beaches stretching that long or longer?) and the good weather to enjoy it. Not a surprise I spend two full days chilling out there..

All that’s been a couple days ago by now though – and right now I’m in a place called Innisfail. I read in my beloved travel-guidebook that there are some cool national parks in the area here, which there are. Too bad karma’s a bitch and my not-planning things backfired this time: you need a car to get anywhere, there are simply no buses or trains going.. Despite being kinda stuck and not able what I wanted to do, Innisfail itself isn’t all bad though;

The Innisfail esplanade

One of the many hills around Innisfail - not very spectacular but pretty nice to walk through

 

  

Since I wasn’t gonna go anywhere I decided to just walk around Innisfail for a bit, when I saw a wild kangaroo in the field. Excited as I was I followed it into the field, whereafter it ran away real quick. The fields were verry pretty though so I kinda kept walking through them. That is, until a farmer threatened to shoot me if I didn’t  get my “fucking cunt ass” of his property. He even kept yelling and threatening me as I was not getting off his land fast enough for his taste. Safe to say my lesson’s learnt.

But, I DID see some wild kangaroos! Too bad my phonecamera doesn't zoom..