Thursday 28th July Mossman

 We left our peaceful lakeside site this morning and said a sad farewell to the beautiful village of Yungaburra. It was an easy drive of an hour and a half to our next destination of Mossman. The drive took us back through Mareeba and then a rather hilly and windy road into Mossman. On a clear day some of the views would have been outstanding. We quickly settled into our new surroundings, a lovely council owned caravan park located on the banks of the Mossman River and with a magnificent council Olympic size pool located next-door. All customers to the caravan park are allowed full use of the pool facilities. Pity it wasn’t a little warmer although there were a few people swimming. Obviously, 25 degrees is warm enough for some.  We have the crystal clear, sandy based Mossman River flowing at the back of the caravan. It looked so lovely and peaceful that I thought it could be a nice place to kayak until I saw the crocodile warning signs in the caravan park. After setting up we decided to find the local information centre. I “googled” Mossman tourist information and the only place that came up was the Mossman Gorge centre. We drove out there and tried to find some general information. The shop and gallery were huge, full of people and the carpark was full too. There was not one piece of information about anything other than Mossman Gorge and even then we had to ask about that. No information anywhere regarding costs etc. We found out that you could walk into the gorge along a shared road with the shuttle bus, quite a walk or you could do a guided tour of the gorge for $86 per person. You could do your own walks and take the shuttle bus in for $13.50 per person so we decided we would do this. There was no other information about The Daintree or Port Douglas or surrounding attractions. Back in Mossman, we asked at one of the shops and none of them knew of a general information centre. Anyway, after Rob checked out the golf course we returned to the caravan park and I went back into the office of the caravan park. They had quite a collection of general information so we were able to gain some insights there. Following lunch we went for a drive to the small Daintree Village.