We pulled up at Newell beach and the pool was right behind our caravan we went for swims all the time. We drove down to the Daintree River to do a croc tour. We saw one croc, a female; she was about 3m long. The boat driver scared me with his fake croc. We snuck up behind me when we were on the boat and snuck it under my arm. I jumped in fright but then started to laugh. Everyone on the boat was laughing too. We also saw a green tree snake, it was really cool. It was all coiled up and looked small but when it started to move it was really long. The next tour we went on another tour this time we saw four crocs. Before we got on the boat we saw a green tree frog that jumped, splay right onto my face. It felt funny, I wasn’t expecting it.
AT the first caravan park we stayed at I met a new kid called snowball, and “no” it was not his nickname. We also met up with Dylan, Ann Maree and Rob. We all made a hideout and we found a vine that we made into our swing. At night time we caught cane toads. On the first night we caught 6 and on the second night we caught about 100, they were everywhere. On the first night we put the cane toads in the freezer to kill them but on the second night we had too many so we had to tie them up in heaps of bags and put them in the bin. We ended up moving to another caravan park called Caravilla, it was really nice. We swam in the pool and Taj made a new friend called Jayden.
We went out to Green Island. When we were in the boat we saw beautiful blue water which then led to more amazing light blue water. Sitting near the pier in the light blue water were two green sea turtles. As we walked off the pier we saw lots of different fish and stingrays. Straight away we got into the water. Tamsyn, Dylan and I swam out really far but it wasn’t even that deep. We swam around looking at all the beautiful coral reef. There were lots of fish and we even got to swim with a massive GT (giant travelly). A part of the tour was getting to go on a glass bottom boat. As soon as we hoped in we could see a huge GT swimming under the glass. As we drove along there was lots of amazing fish. AT the end where you feed all the fish we saw a turtle that the driver called squirt. He’s always here.
We went on a train along a big railway that passed a big waterfall. We even got to stop at a waterfall that was massive. We got off at the top of the hill about an hour later and went to the Kuranda markets. Kuranda was a nice tiny town. Most of the town is just market stalls. We had lunch and then hoped on the Skyrail. The Skyrail is where you hop in these big glass balls and they go along a cable like a chair lift. You go up above the rainforest and then come back down into the gorges and walking tracks. The views were amazing. We called for a taxi on the way back down. We were waiting in the taxi bay but the taxi driver picked up other people and just drove off so we had to wait for ages before another taxi came.
Fitzroy Island had a really cool water trampoline that we liked to jump off into the water. The reef was more of an outer reef style with bigger coral than Green Island and it was much deeper too. I got to swim with two green sea turtle and I got to touch one too. There was no sand on the beach it was all dried up coral, it made a really cool sound when the waves moved it.
After dropping Dylan in Cairns to catch his plane home we went west. AT Undurra we went to the caves. Some of them had water in them and they were freezing. I started a water fight with mum in the dark. I started splashing Mum and Dad with the freezing cold water. We went to a bonfire at night where a guy did a presentation called wings and things. He taught us about birds and bats but he kept getting interrupted by a little rock wallaby.
We drove to Karumba; it was hours and hours away. When we were fishing there was this croc that came by and we were fishing right at the edge. Straights away we moved back about three steps but there was a little ledge so he wouldn’t have been able to jump up to get us. We caught a catfish and 7 Dew fresh. We caught silver and black dew fish. We watched the footy grandfinal and the cats won no probs.
AT one of the freestays we met a bloke who was walking his camel from Katherine to Alice Springs. That’s about 1300km. Noodles the camel woke us up really early when he started grumping at his owner. Camels are really really loud.
Finally we got to Mataranka springs. We went straight to Bitter Springs and had a swim. The water was coming out of the ground really warm. I loved the springs. We set up our caravan at Mataranka homestead and there were more spring there. There were bats everywhere. They would leave at about 5.30pm and come back at 5.30am. They stunk so bad, there was poo everywhere but the springs were nice I had my birthday at the springs; I got a new fishing rod, iTunes voucher, money, a teddy, a book and some cars. We went Barra fishing for my birthday but we didn’t catch anything. We also had a swim in the springs; I had a really cool birthday.
Now we’re off to Katherine.
I’ll blog again soon.
Ry
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