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Cape Tribulation and Mangrove Fauna...Cape Tribulation Cape Tribulation National Park has one of the most diverse communities of plants and animals on land. Here, two World Heritage areas meet - the Wet Tropics Rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The unique experience into the area starts with the cable ferry across the Daintree River. This is the only way to access this whole new world of wilderness and Rainforest which is unmatched anywhere else in Australia. After storms you will see mists hanging in the valleys. The road takes you where trees tower overhead, forming a large canopy for you to drive through. This luxurious tropical growth is the result of the high rainfall, which is over 4.0 metres yearly! The most awe-inspiring aspect is that it is the most ancient forest in the world having evolved without a break in 130 million years. This area escaped the ravages of the ice ages, the volcanic and dry spells. The continents had not yet broken up and spread across the globe, but were contained in the one land mass called "Gondwanaland" when they were forming. The Rainforest reaches right down to the beach in parts of the 17,000 square kilometre National Park. Cape Tribulation is probably the only part in the world where the Reef actually does meet the Rainforest, about 25 metres, and has miles and miles of unspoilt Rainforest. Mangrove FaunaAt dusk an eerie spectacle can take place as wave after wave of Flying Fox fly from the mangroves. They spend the night ripping and knawing at fruits and they let out terrifying screeches as they fight among themselves for the best fruit. These are one of the many types of animals that inhabit the specialised world of the mangrove swamps. Mangroves are a meeting place for land and sea animals. Though mangroves can be found in the tropics around the world, here the various plant and animal life is incomparable. The rare sights of a Fiddler Crab scurrying along and burying itself in the mud; the Mangrove Snail suspending itself under mangrove leaves on a cord; the Jabiru seen feeding on Yabbies at low tide, are just a few wonders of this area. This solitary shy bird is Australia's only representative if the stork family, surpasses only in size by the Emu, Cassowary and the Brolga. |
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Cape
Tribulation is a narrow headland flanked by glorious beaches. Captain
James Cook named Cape Tribulation after his ship ran aground on a offshore
reef on 11 June 1770. It remained undisturbed until 1928 when the Mason
brothers settled and started logging, cattle grazing and mixed agriculture.