The Mighty Rainforest

Besides the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns is also near the Daintree Rain forest... the world's oldest rain forest. On a whim, we decided since we had made it all the way out to Australia, we might as well as check it out.

The Daintree is also home to one of the world's more rarest birds... the Cassowary. There are only 1,200 left in the world and only 70 live in the Daintree... our guide said only 15% of his tours actually spot one so we really shouldn't hold our breath.

A smooth trip down the Daintree Rain forest to go crocodile hunting (all we saw was a mama croc and a baby)... and spotted some Australia Treemouths (owls) then a super curvy road along the coastline and we made it. Some of the trees were over a million years old! We were told to imagine the same backdrop but with dinosaurs roaming around... it'd be the exact same!

Walking along, we were told to hush... a cassowary and his ducklings (the male raises the babies) were just a few feet a head! It's even more rare to the babies! Unfortunately a guy was blocking the view but we managed to get a picture of his picture (ha).

After a quick lunch, we were to this very peaceful creek and enjoyed local tropical fruits. For those of you that know Piyusha well, you would know that it was like Christmas morning when they revealed we'd be tasking passion fruit that afternoon.

After leaving the Daintree, we made our way to Cape Tribulation... where James Cook came into Australia. It's also one of the very few places in the world where you can stand in both land and a marine life at the same time. Pretty cool stuff..

A random snake siting and what we thought was a croc turned out to be the cousin of the komodo dragon...

And finally... after all our attempts at getting close to a kangaroo, we finally finally got a close encounter with not just one, but TWO of them and got to feed them!