Traveling to the Land Down Under

I left my house in Michigan at 7:00 AM on Sunday morning, 40 hours later I arrived in Cairns, Australia at 12 noon on Tuesday. To help fight Jet Lag my mom and I stayed up as long as possible exploring the city. We had dinner with a friend named Nathan and went to bed at 7 PM. Twelve hours later we woke up to get ready to travel to the rain forest called the Daintree.

The Daintree is an ancient rain forest that dates back 125 million years!! It is located 2 hours north of Cairns just on the other side of the Daintree River. To cross the river we took a boat ride to look for crocodiles. Here is a picture of the only one that we saw.
It was a young one only a couple of years old and only a few yards long but a 9-10 yard croc has been spotted in the river before. Our captain made sure to tell us that there are Crocodiles in all the waters in the area unless it is really cold. Also he told us that the most dangerous Crocodile is the unseen one, because he is under the water watching and waiting for you!

We continued on and went for a hike on a boardwalk through the rain forest. Here we saw trees that were 100s of years old but were still quite small. Their ancestors were around during the time of the Dinosaurs!