It seems ages ago when we stepped into the travel agent's place across the street from our hostel in St. Kilda's. It was there that we laid out our Oz itinerary and booked the majority of our tours and accommodation. One portion of the journey I had previously never heard of: a 2 day/1-night Cape Tribulation trip. Part of the reason we decided to keep it in the itin was that it was a good way to provide a free transfer North of Cairns so we could spend a couple of nights in Port Douglas, which we heard fantastic things about.
Cape Tribulation is a couple of hours North of Cairns -- its a proper rainforest and each day it rained a few times, turning into a serious downpour, but only lasting 10-15 mins or so. And about an hour later, the concrete walkways were already dry again due to the humidity.
We did a tour up there that included a river cruise where we saw 2 baby crocs and a heron. 
We stayed in a cool hostel called the Cape Trib Beach House which was a series of different cabin accommodations right within the rainforest! Here's a shot of our cabin -- it had 3 rooms plus a kitchen/common area, but the other rooms were empty so it was all ours :)
Behind us is the actual 'Cape' that the area is named after. We took a walk down there behind our hostel to check out the lookout, another beach, and see some cool wildlife.
Swimming in the rain in the rainforest was a cool experience.
Spiders here are everywhere! And they are ginormous (like Dan & Sue's clock!). Here's a shot of me holding a big female:
Just kidding -- I'm not holding her -- no way! Spiders are actually pretty difficult to photograph so in this one I simply had my hand behind her web. Apparently this spiders' webs is one of the strongest and the army is starting to use it in materials due to its strength to weight ratio.
Our beach house had a cool tented area where the bistro (great food!) and pool were located. They also had a wicked selection of games, and Astrid & I had a couple of good matches of Yahtzee!
This is the access to the beach from the bistro area.
Artistic rainforest walk shot. ;o)
Lastly, here's a shot of a large Lace Monitor that we saw on our walk. He waddled around us for quite a while before venturing back into the brush.
Overall a very cool place to chill out and a great experience.
Syd.
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