Kids spent an amazing day cruising a river looking for crocs, wandering around Cape Tribulation, and emulating Tarzan in waterholes while we were visiting Daintree rainforest.
This is the only place in the world where two World Heritage-listed sites exist side by side – Daintree National Park and The Great Barrier Reef.
The region referred to as ‘The Daintree Rainforest’ encompasses an area of approximately 1,200 square kilometres, from the Daintree River north to Cooktown and west to the Great Divide, representing the single largest block of tropical rainforest in Australia.
The area protected under World Heritage listing covers an area of approximately 12,000 square kilometres and stretches from Townsville to Cooktown. 75 per cent of which is tropical rainforest, an area equivalent to about the size of Sydney. It is known as the Wet Tropics. The 9th December 2013 marked 25 years since the listing of the Wet Tropics World Heritage
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