The
Coast Road (Bloomfield Track) - Cairns to Cooktown, Queensland,
Australia
Listed
at 20 (Up from 79) The Coast Road, Cairns to Cooktown
The Coast Road
runs from Cairns to Cooktown through the pristine Daintree rainforest.
As drives go the Coast Road is off the scale. You can look forward
to river crossings and picturesque waterways, magnificent beaches
& rugged mountains. You can also look forward to getting stuck
if you don't have a 4WD (or you aren't a passenger in someone else’s).
The bituman ends at Cape Trib.
On route:
Bloomfield
Falls and Track
• Bloomfield
Falls, a place of particular cultural significance to the Kuku Yalanji
people.
• Bloomfield Track, built to connect Bloomfield to Cape Tribulation
and the scene of a major confrontation with conservationists in
the 1980's. Much tree hugging and chain saw yielding (see listing
no. 21)
Woobadda Creek,South
Cowie Beach and Emmagen Creek.
• Woobadda
Creek, which has a swimming hole upstream and the beautiful, and
remote South Cowie Beach.
• Emmagen Creek. This is also popular, beautiful and a great
photo stop. Take the track upstream (not down) on the south side
of the creek for swimming holes.
Cape Tribulation
Beach and Daintree Coast, River and Rainforest
• Cape
Tribulation Beach, the ultimate 'where rainforest meets the reef'
tropical beach
• Daintree Rainforest via the Dubuji boardwalk
• Swim in Myall Creek
• Thornton Beach
• Cow Bay (home of the Croodillus hostel)
• Daintree Discovery Centre boardwalks, Aerial Walkway and
Canopy Tower to get a birds view of the Daintree
• Daintree River car ferry – there is no bridge, just
crocs
Bloomfield
Track, North of Cape Tribulation
The Bloomfield
Track is a 4WD dirt track through the Daintree Rainforest just north
of Cape Tribulation.
The track traverses
several creeks and river crossings and including some steep climbs
and descents.
The Bloomfield
Track
The Bloomfield
Track is many kilometres of rugged terrain and magnificent scenery
in a remote wilderness region.
Bloomfield
River
The track runs
unsurprisingly to the Bloomfield River, through to Wujal Wujal and
Bloomfield. You can continue on to the unspoilt / under-developed
Cooktown.
It is possible
to self 4WD but driving a vehicle in rough terrain takes a great
deal of attention. You risk missing out on experiencing the surrounding
scenery or getting stuck. If do get into trouble may become over
familiar with just one small section of the track. Let someone else
drive.
Bloomfield
Rainforest
Sometimes the
picture just speaks for itself.
 Bloomfield
Rainforest
Bloomfield
Rainforest, Daintree Explorer
Departing your
city hotel you travel through the sugar cane and pineapple plantations
toward the Daintree River, where we join our own personalized river
cruise.
Daintree River
Cruise
The cruise
takes us though areas where the rainforest meets overhead and crocodiles
can normally be seen basking on the muddy banks. (Sea snakes and
Pythons, also native to the Mangrove Swamp, can be seen on the cruise.)
Enjoy a home
prepared morning tea whilst cruising the placid waters before returning
to our vehicle to cross the river aboard a barge.
Daintree Rainforest
and Cape Tribulation
You enter the
Daintree Rainforest making our way to Cape Tribulation where we
stroll through the rainforest to the shores of the Coral Sea. From
here you can view the bay against the backdrop of the dense Rainforest.
Bloomfield
Track
Enjoy a delicious
lunch under the canopy of the forest before traveling into 4wd country
along the Bloomfield Track to Woobadda creek.
After exploring
the area, you return along the track taking a stroll deep into the
rainforest.
Mossman Gorge
Returning to
the vehicle you will travel Southward and enter the Mossman Gorge
with its breathtaking Waterfalls and rushing waters, returning to
Cairns late afternoon.
This will be
a truly memorable and exhilarating day.
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