{"id":868,"date":"2018-10-30T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/?p=868"},"modified":"2018-10-30T08:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:41:32","slug":"into-the-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/into-the-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T110756GMT1000-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A swim in the morning made it easier to tear ourselves away from newfound civilisation and we headed up to the Daintree Rainforest via the chain car ferry accross the crocodile infested Daintree River.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T111421GMT1000-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were advised to stop at Mossman gorge on the way but it was touristy and unless you wanted to swim in the pools probably not a must do. We did enjoy our first short walk in the rainforest though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T115810GMT1000-1250x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1250\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T114907GMT1000-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T112813GMT1000-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David found a large sheet to pull<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T115641GMT1000-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also stopped further up for a longer walk where there had been cassowary sightings but we didn\u2019t see one. Probably just as well as they can be aggressive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" title=\"QLD \/ Australia - 10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T133032GMT1000.jpg\" alt=\"QLD \/ Australia - 10\/28\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"781\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We did see a brush turkey and a little Pita bird on the forest floor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T122100GMT1000.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1259\" height=\"944\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T172648GMT1000.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1123\" height=\"1139\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mostly you hear the birds but can\u2019t see them!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T112724GMT1000-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We arrived at our fruit-farm stay at Cape Tribulation and were welcomed by trees full of rainbow lorikeets.<\/p>\n<p>These are beautiful torch flowers &#8211; a ginger lily<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"10\/28\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BIRU-WP-20181028T162943GMT1000-1536x1152.jpg\" alt=\"10\/28\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swim in the morning made it easier to tear ourselves away from newfound civilisation and we headed up to the Daintree Rainforest via the chain car ferry accross the crocodile infested Daintree River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}