Mossman Travel Blogs

The tropics in Australia! Starting at Port Douglas - 40 mins north of Cairns. A boat ride to the Great Barrier Reef. Then to Mossman Gorge stunning rainforest, The Daintree and Cape Tribulation.

Heading back from Cape Trib, we took a stopover in the strange little town of Mossman, a place which appeared to have got stuck somewhere in time (probably somewhere in the 1970's). The main attraction here was another section of Wet tropics named 'Mossman Gorge', and ancient rainforest with deep a…

My adventure so far.

Watten Spaß!!! Family time!!!

Cruised from Sydney up eastern sea-board of Australia on Royal Caribbean "Rhapsody of the Seas" This was an 11-day cruise following the 10-day New Caledonia cruise. Ports of call were Hamilton Island, Cairns, Port Douglas, Cooktown, round Willis Island, Brisbane.Fantastic cuise except insufficient time ashore. Lots of things to see and do. The residents of Cooktown should be more prepared for 1700+ cruise passengers all looking for tours (only 1 available).

The peak in view is called Manjal Dimbi by the Kuku Yalanji. Roughly translated, the words mean "mountain holding back", as the large humanoid rock represents Kubirri, who came to the aid of the Kuku Yalanji when they were persecuted by the evil spirit, Wurrumbu. Kubirri holds back the evil spirit…

A short trip where we started in Sydney, then flew in to Cairns and drove all the way to Cooktown and back, did a liveaboard on the Great Barrier Reef then flew back to Sydney.