Cape Tribulation . . . .

. . . where the rainforest meets the beach. This place is beautiful. Big lush trees that date back millions of years. Its older than dinosaurs and still blooming.

This is the highest point we travelled to in Austarlia and the further up you got the hotter and more humid it gets. Its kinda like when you're at Kew Gardens or somewhere and you visit the rainforest greenhouse, you normally wander round quickly and get out before you boil to death and your hair frizzes.

We had a really funny coach driver from Bolton (good old northern boy) who took us around and showed us some lovely beaches and dropped us of for a crocodile cruise. It was a bit hot for the crocs at the time though but luckily we managed to spot one lurking through some trees.

In the evening we decided to go for a night walk through the rainforest to spot all the creepy crawlies as ya do! We saw heaps of frogs, spiders (of course, although no touching this time), lizards, a snake, massive crickets, bats, lime ants again (so had another lick on their butts) and a few little birds asleep under leaves, and a MASSIVE centipede.

There was only a small group of us so it was really personal and the uide was really good. He taugt us how to hold te torch so that you can see all the beady little eyes looking out at us.

It was a bit freaky walking around in the middle of the night so I walked with my torch pointing up most of the time watching for the spiders dangling down, bungying from the tree's in front (and probably above) us. I guess Dave didn't cure my fear in Oz after all!!!!

We got eaten alive by midgies too so when it came to going to bed I kept thinking about spiders, and I was itchy so it was the craziest nights sleep I've ever had, twitching and whacking my head to get the bugs of like I have torretts!