Edge of Paradise...

Mossman Gorge

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

~Henry David Thoreau

The subtle magnetism is working overtime, my thoughts are still upon The Great Barrier Reef and the oldest rainforest in the world, The Daintree National Park...I actually got the opportunity to visit Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland. It is the point where World Heritage Rainforest meets World Heritage Great Barrier Reef.






I swam in this, one of the oldest rockpools in the oldest rainforest, (Daintree), on earth, and I swam in it. (It was bloody cold too).

It actually is much deeper than it looks too, especially over by the trees.

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."

~Author Unknown

"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."

~Alfred Billings Street

A picture of up inside the tree..just stuck my camera inside and click.

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

~Henry David Thoreau

Rainforest canopy..

Mangrove trees on the Daintree River...

Daintree River..

Crocodile in the Daintree River..(I didn't swim here :) )

I think these are frog mouth owls (which are not technically owls at all). Again Daintree River.

Green tree snake, still on the river.

Cape Tribulation.

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

~Loren Eiseley

"The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. "

~Annie Dillard