Here's Michelle ziplining in the Daintree - there's one part where she's dangling upside down for a while. The aim was for Shell to swing her arms as if she was swimming (or at least that's what one of the guides was trying to instruct her to do) so that she could turn herself around for a photo but after a few attempts Shell exlaims "just let me go" and so they did and she completed her zipline to the end.
After ziplining (Jan. 6) we had some time to kill as we'd signed up for a Nightwalk in the Daintree. We checked out a beach on Cape Tribulation (a deserted one) as well as Myle Beach where we walked around on a boardwalk in the pouring rain.
Here we are totally drenched:
Everywhere we'd go whether the opera house or the beach we'd see other tourists taking photos of people jumping. We couldn't quite understand why, but after giving it a go and seeing the resulting photos we think it's pretty funny!
We don't have any photos or video from this Nightwalk excursion but it was one of the highlights of the trip. Particularly when we shut all of our torches off and just watched the flickering lightning bug or some of the glow in the dark fungi. And in an incredible stroke of good luck - we saw not one Boyd's Forest Dragon (or as I mistakenly initially thought I heard our guide say - Boyd's Fire Dragon) but a whole family. We saw the young dragon, the Mom and then finally the Father all hanging around on these branches in the same vicinity.
The nightwalk ended at around 9:30 p.m. and then there was this winding drive back to the 5 minute ferry (the most expensive ferry ride - it cost $21 for the roundtrip) in the complete dark!
Here are photos of the 5-minute ferry from earlier in the day as well as the "beware of the cassowary" we saw all along the way:
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