Plumed Whistling Ducks at Hasting's Swamp
Plumed Whistling Duck in flight
Hasting's Swamp
Rainforest at Mt Hypipamee
Ryan chilling, while looking...
The 'Warrior' camper that was our home for a week... very cramped yet suprisingly comfortable for 3 people!!
Myles and Ryan haning out near the dunnies... not being dodgy, but looking for Fernwrens
Grey-headed Robin!! AWESOME!!
This image was incidentally rude... Ryan looking at orchids, Myles looking in the canopy...
Beautiful moist rainforest, looking for Golden Bowerbird...
...and we find only an old Golden Bowerbird bower
Lake Eacham, that used to harbour a number of endemic fresh water fish, now unfortunately many of them are extinct due to the release of introduced fish...
The Warriors...
dodgy...
Ryan having an early morning cuppa outside the Warrior van... we got bogged at this spot but managed to get out by just gunnin it!!
Curtain Tree Fig, just outside Yunguburra...
Mareeba Wetlands
Green Pygmy-goose at Mareeba Wetlands, as seen though a scope using my dodgy old camera!
Typical dry savannah woodland; weird to think that there is tropical rainforest only about 15km east of here! REALLY steep aridity gradient...
'Chook' driving us around Mareeba Wetlands!! Geez, he was a great guy, SOOOO occa, but very knowledgable and excited about birds!!!
The place we saw Squatter Pigeon
Right near here there was a Star Finch nest, but we missed seeing it...
Julatten Birdwatchers Lodge!!
We were shown around by the caretaker, and just near here, we saw a Wompoo Fruit-dove alight on the ground!!
Respekt.....
Our LONG walk up Mt Lewis!!
Looking up at Golden Bowerbirds!!!!!
Daintree River Cruise!
Papuan Frogmouths!
As the mist clears on our river cruise...
We saw Double-eyed Fig-Parrot near this spot!!
Our one and only crocodile!!
Mossman Gorge
Ryan decided to snorkel in this water to see the native fishes... crazy bugger; it was sooo cold!!
Crocodile country!!
...as warned...
ran down to the water to take this photo, quickly ran back to avoid being eaten by crocs...
Beach Stone-curlew!!
some really cool mangrove boardwalks...
one of my favourite photos of the trip...
The cramped living quarters...
Cape Tribulation!!
mangroves at Cape Tribulation
Although it was 8am or so, it was already incredibly humid and warm...
every one of these creeks could have harboured crocodiles!!
the famous sign on the way into Cape Tribulation... doesn't stop people speeding though...
looking south just south of Cape Trib, apparently, Steve Irwin died just to the left edge of this pic near the offshore island
the ferry over the Daintree River
the boys after a long week....
never been eaten by so many sandflies in all my life!!!
this is one of the weirdest habitats I have ever walked through... the echoing sound of the clicking whelks was so odd...
this is where I saw the Mangrove Robin; the last species of the trip!
