Today we got up early to do the Whyanbeel walk.

 

Naaa, we didn’t :o)

 

Literally.

 

All the way to her place we hummed the Bond theme =)

 

The middle of nowhere but at the border to the rainforest where we wanted to have our walk. The walk is 13km and the description timed it to 6 hours.

Yeah, right!

If you have a machete and if you are the size of a pygmy.

In my case you are on your knees half of the time. The other half I was stuck to a tree called “wait a little palm”.

 

Once we made a stop to eat a muesli bar and drinks some water we saw a leech approaching us.

Ugly little worm.

Later it turned out that while this one was distracting us the rest of his family sneeked up on me. I felt a sting and I found three leeches on my ankles clinched to my sock. I scrapped them of and tugged the trowsers into my socks. But I must have overlooked one. When we where back at our car and I dragged the trowser out of my socks one of this fellows fell off filled up to the rim with my blood. My ankle was covered with and my trowsers leg soaked in blood.

 

To make it  short we didn’t made it to the end of the walk and only got half way befor we decided to turn back ‘cause non of us wanted to be trapped in the rainforest when the sun goes down.

 

That evening we crossed the Daintree river on a ferry and made it to Cape Tribulation. We washed our cloths, had a few beers and some games of pool billiard.

Next: Cape Tribulation or “The End of the Sealed Road”