Trinity Beach Holiday – Cairns Northern Beaches
It’s a little known fact that the Daintree
Rainforest, an ancient World Heritage-listed
wonderland in our own backyard, is older than the
Amazon. It’s here that the velvety green mantle of
the forest slopes plunge to the aqua blue Great
Barrier Reef marine park, where fringing reefs grow
almost to the shore. No where else in the world can
you experience these two natural wonders side by
side - where the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier
Reef and the Daintree Rainforest actually meet;
Rainforest to Reef.
Just an 1 ¼ hour drive from Trinity Beach along one
of Australia’s most scenic highways, the Captain
Cook Highway, is the Village of the Daintree; the
perfect base from which to explore the Daintree
Rainforest region. You can self-drive or take a day
tour with one of the many rainforest tours on offer
through your accommodation.
The wonder of the Daintree Rainforest and Cape
Tribulation is on your doorstep. Crossing the
Daintree River by ferry begins your journey as a
great experience in itself. There are flora species
that have survived almost unchanged for 110 million
years. About 3,000 plant species from 210 families
are found in the forest. Twelve out of the world's
19 families of primitive flowering plants grow here
and within these families, there are at least 50
species found only in the Daintree.
This area is home to about a third of Australia's
315 mammal species - 13 of these species are found
nowhere else in the world. They include unique green
possums, ringtail possums, fierce marsupial cats,
rare bats, tree-kangaroos, a rat-kangaroo, melomys
and antechinus. There are many spectacular insects
including, crustaceans, worms, beetles, ants,
spiders, mites, scorpions, amblypygids, centipedes
and millipedes, not to mention the snails and slugs.
While the Rainforest region is home to a quarter of
Australia's frogs and a little over a third of the
country's freshwater fish, it is also home to nearly
half of Australia's birds - that's more than 370
different species.
There are so many different things to see. A guided
tour is the best way to experience the Daintree
Rainforest as you will be getting information that
you cannot glean for yourself.
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