Friday, May 1, 2009
The Great Barrier Reef - Day 2
Our second day in tropical North Queensland started with a drive north to the Daintree Rainforest. We went on a boat tour of the Daintree River searching from saltwater crocs -- and not only did we find a MASSIVE croc, but we also saw a snake, a green tree frog, a few smaller crocs and some interesting birds. Luckily, we all walked away safely. We continued our drive up through the rainforest making some stops along the way at a few of the beaches. We found some sort of scary huge lizard that looked like a Komoto Dragon! I stayed a nice distance away while Tyson followed it to snap some pictures. We also did a boardwalk walk through the rainforest too. Today was a day of firsts - seeing our first crocodile in the wild, our first time to see a Komoto Dragon lookalike, our first time to ever even BE in a rainforest, and our first time to eat Wattleseed ice cream!
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Karis... I love, love, love your pictures! Congrats on the new job and return to Texas- I know you've loved your adventure but have missed our homeland!
You got some incredible shots - what great memories!
I thought the croc outside the hut was bigger than the one in the water you called "Fat Albert", but that aside...The Daintree Raintree Oaktree Rainforest is world renowned for its confusing title. Many a traveler has come here thinking they were visiting the more popular rainforest called the Baintree Graintree Sanetree Rainforest which everyone knows is in northern Indonesia, just slightly northwest from the Daintree Raintree Oaktree Rainforest. Good pics though. The spider was scary...but not for Spiderman. Wait...I think he's actually scared of spiders too.
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