Daintree Rain Forest - Cairns, Aus

[BunkMoreland]

All being well, I'll be in Cairns in August for a few days (Flights out could be an issue if Iran is still chucking things at UAE as that's where my stopover is!)

Got the Barrier Reef sorted. But want to spend some time in the Daintree Rain Forest.

There's a few tour operators on Trip Advisor/Booking.com that do day trips where they pick you up from your hotel. Take you out, show you stuff, then bring you back.

Some are Day. A couple are Night. The one I'm looking at is lunchtime pick up and they drop you back around 9pm. I;m thinking 6-9 hours is probably enough without it getting boring. Its on "getyourguide" A site I've seen a lot of, but never used.

Just wondering if anyone has ever done anything in that rainforest and if they can remember who they booked with? Any experience of Get Your guide would be useful.

Price isn't too important. They all seem to be £100-150ish.

Thanks

[Screenwash]

Been up there a couple of times over the past 15 years. A day excursion will be long enough; the distances aren’t huge. Daintree village is only a short drive from the ferry, or you can stay in a few places inside the forest itself. Most tours end up a Cape Trib beach.

There are a few free boardwalk walks in the forest that your tour will doubtlessly take you to.

Don’t recall seeing any crocs but there are plenty around.

It’ll all be run by local tour companies - all much the same.

Port Douglas is the place for a swimming beach, and bars and restaurants, if that’s more your thing. Cairns also has a nice free public pool on the Esplanade.

[durbster]

Yeah I camped up in the rainforest a few years ago. The Daintree river is absolutely teeming with crocs so we booked a river cruise and saw loads, including some monsters.

This was a good few years ago so I probably can't help much but I can say I loved it up there. I didn't think too much of Cairns itself but it's the liveliest place around by far. I found Port Douglas a nicer place and more chilled.

Then further north it gets properly remote. We got as far as Cape Tribulation which was as far north as we could go without 4WD. It's a fantastic area, full of wildlife, with great big lizards wandering around all over the place.

The crocs are the stars of course but they're easy to avoid. It's the Cassowaries you have to watch out for

[superpp]

We did this trip:
https://backcountrybliss.com.au/tours/river-drift-...

Obviously uses a croc free river :-)
Was really good fun, we actually booked through a cruiseline but I think they used this company.
Picked up and dropped off from Port Douglas.