Cape Tribulation's Fringing Reef Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
By heathtree on 23-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3V8Z8

De a van ons team maakt een rondreis. We genieten bolop met haar mee. Deze kunnen voorzien van een vrolijke gele smiley. De cache weten te vinden en het levert vaak hele leuke routes op. Bedankt voor het leggen en onderhouden van de cache.

We continued today our tour of several AUS states in the NorthWest and thereby searched, found and logged this interesting Earth-Cache.The weather was - said in one word simply best. The good hidden caches and the being on holidays kept us the whole day in a good mood. The cache had good coordinates, and thus was easy to find. The answers were sent.Thanks to heathtree for the generation of this nice cache Cape Tribulation's Fringing Reef (with the proper agenda), for leading us here and for showing us this funny location as well as the ongoing maintenance of this cache.PS: Please forgive us the uniform log which is needed due to timing problems - if necessary special actions and happenings are there described where they happened.Greetings from Germany together with the hope to meet somewhere like event or wood. TFTC says H_M_A @ 5. Oktober 2024 @ 15:57 o'clock @ [#22568](https://coord.info/GC3V8Z8)

We were staying in Cow Bay and made our way up to Cape tribulation. A stunning drive through the rain forest later and we can enjoy the beach, boardwalks and mangrove forests. No cassowary this time, but we saw some wild pigs (with piglets so we backed away) and various other animals and plants. We also waited for some time because we heard something big in a steam, but we didn't get to see it.

Une earth au fin fond du parc de Daintree dans une plage fantastique, un PF

This is paradise on earth! Cape Tribulation is such a beautiful place. Thanks for this super fun earth cache, we loved the experiment with the coral pieces and the vinegar! I did not step into the water though- all these croc signs and stories about crocs made me stay on the beach.

Greetings from Wales Today we headed for Daintree and an explore up the Cape Tribulation road via the discovery centre and on via various stops including grabbing a couple of caches too.We made it to Cape Tribulation and strolled down to majestic and peaceful beach where we strolled along to the waypoint and I picked up a couple of bits of coral - experiment done and answers sent to the CO so I hope they are OK. Once the sun had set we went on a superb night rainforest walk with one of the local guides. Thanks for bringing us here.

Nejprve trochu konferenn cesta na Viruses of Microbes Cairns 2024 pozdji i dovolen ns pivedla k tto kei. Byl jsem zde ped 16 lety a te putujeme po naich stopch. Tehdy jsem vak jet o geocachingu vdl jen teoreticky. First, a bit of a conference trip to the Viruses of Microbes Cairns 2024 and then a vacation in North QLD brought us to this geocache. I was here 16 years ago and now we are following in our footsteps. We had a bit of rainy weather all day, but that belongs to the humid tropics.Dky za zakladatelsk poin a prci s tm spojenou. Greetings from Brno the Czech Republic. T F T C! _____________ Geocache: Cape Tribulation's Fringing Reef By: heathtree Size: Not chosen D 1.5 / T 2.5.Ke nalezena dne July 27, 2024 v 15:03 This is my found log no. 13226.

Out caching with Emandel who sent the answers for both of us.

Thank you for the fun Earth cache!

Thank you for bringing us to this beautiful location. Answers sent to CO. TFTC

Vce pozdeji

Did this on a wet day. Sun came out for 5 mins when we got to the beach. TFTC

The weather had cleared a bit when I arrived at this location. I wasn't sure that the storms were finished but I tried to enjoy the view while I was there.I did the experiment and thought I had put my answers in my personal note, but it wasn't there. I used my memory to answer the questions and sent them to the CO. I headed back to Port Douglas after this cache and saw a cassowary eating along the road! What?!? I was so thrilled. My photos weren't great, but just seeing it was incredible.Farther down the road, I saw something moving toward the road from the right. I stopped and grabbed my phone but was unable to get a photo or a video of the DINGO that ran across in front of me. The nature gods were with me today. Thank you for the smiley and the fun!The day:I was visiting from the U.S. and had a goal of driving all the way up the east coast starting in Melbourne and ending in Port Douglas over a few weeks. I am staying in Port Douglas for a few days and today was a day trip to Cape Tribulation. The weather was somewhat cooperative, but the geocaching didn't go the way I would have liked. However, I did see some beautiful places and some cool animals along the route.Many thanks to all the geocachers who placed and continue to maintain their geocaches for folks like me to find. I know it's not always easy, but I do appreciate you.

A wonderful place, but not the place to go for a swim. Thanks for new knowledge and greetings from Sweden

Heading to Cape York, with Team Crackers, Geoturtle37 and Papi4506.This was a great place to relax, with a walk down the beach.A beautiful sunny day, and a lot of people enjoying the area. The answers were discussed as a group and sent in to the CO.Thanks for bring us here to do your earthcache, heathtree, a favourite point given.

Cape Trib is somewhere GT37 and I have always wanted to visit so we are both very happy to have made it this trip. Some great caches along here just make it more interesting as was the case with this one. It was great to learn a little more about corals. Thank you for the lesson and the cache.

This destination has always been on my bucket list so I am very happy to have made it this far north and look forward to travelling further in the coming days.I always enjoy and earthcache that teaches me something that I was unaware of so thoroughly enjoyed this one. Thank you for both the cache and the location. Stunning beach.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. Started on the 17th September in Cairns. Our plan is driving.along the eastcoast down. Then in the south on to Adelaide and from there ending the 31th October in Alice Springs.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case heathtree, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

On my roundtrip along Australia with Oopie we are douing always some caches.So we make the answers of this cache together and with your permission Oopie wil sent the answers.COs thanks for bringing us on this nice place and making this caches.

Thank you so much for this great earth cache. Awesome idea
We're not 100 percent sure about our results of the experiment but the answers have been sent.

Went to the Cape with my nanny and poppy and aunty liz
I found the coral and they did the test
Tft lesson and fun in the sand

Trip on the cards today with earthlight and MJG
Earthlight forwarded
Our answers
Logging as a find
Spectacular scenery
Fav pt
Tftc

Today The X-Trailers,MJG and I walked the beach at Cape Tribulation and enjoyed doing your earth cache. We could just see the reef through the waves.
Have forwarded the answers for us all

I visited this stunning place with Mr MR who has sent our joint answers to the CO. Thanks heathtree.

YGAT found a nice bit of coral to conduct our experiment on. We have sent our answers to the CO.

Thanks heathtree for establishing this earthcache in such a stunning location.

We had a lovely drive up to Cape Tribulation and a little way beyond. Walked some lovely beaches admired the wildlife and partook of several culinary delights. All in all A Grand Day Out. TFTC heathtree

Apologies for the late log here (01.01.24) but I've had a busy time since getting back to the UK.A particularly epic and historic spot to end this bit of my long, long (19,000+km) drive on, so thank you for that. I had a paddle and enjoyed heading up the beach to the waypoint in my bare feet, taking those stunning views in and gathering the required info along the way. FP+1 for a great EarthCache! Answers coming via Messenger.TNLN-Virtual. TFTEC!SP (UK) on an epic trek right around the world.

GrimRaider and I took a drive up from Cairns to visit the Daintree and Cape Tribulation. What a beaut day and great to visit this special place again.
We parked nearby and I took a walk up the lovely beach to collect a coral sample. It is such a beautiful spot and I hope we can come back up to spend more time here.
We took the sample home and it took me a while to find where I had carefully placed it haha. I conducted the experiment and sent my answers to the CO.
A very cool EC that taught me lots about coral and the reefs. Thanks for the hide heathtree

What a great little place here. It is nice by its own right, but then has the added bonus that the rainforest meets the reef, a very unique constellation.

I started the little experiment on the beach, with a bit of anti-stinger vinegar, but that did not allow any conclusions (I only used it very sparingly, so not to waste anybody's valuable last ressources). So I decided to take a small piece of coral home, and do the experiment there. This produced a result, but I'm not sure whether I've done everything right. In any case, I did learn a bit from doing it.

Great idea for an EC, Tftc!

Staying in the area for a few days as we were booked to go on a reef snorkelling trip which was unfortunately cancelled due to rough weather. With time on our hands, we set ourselves to completing this experimental Earthcache. It wasn't long and we had the necessary pieces gathered and required responses. We continued on and enjoyed a stroll along the beach in the sun. Answers submitted. TFTC heathtree

Fighting our way thro all the crocs, we finally managed to prize a piece from between the jaws of one particularly slow specimen.
The coral then refused to act like coral for the test. Ah well.
The pic of Buttons will have to be a consolation prize.

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our fourth stop after Los Angeles, Hawaii and New Zealand is Australia.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we visited Daintree Rainforest and Cape Tribulation. While that time we solved the Earthcache **Cape Tribulation's Fringing Reef**

At the given coordinates the needed answers where found quickly and after sending them, ther is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank heathtree for creating this Earthcache!

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
**Wild_Bee_**
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za skrytkę - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

Had a great time with this one!

We had two groups based on whether we thought it was based on calcite or aragonite. We found that most coral bubbled when we put vinegar it...meaning they mostly all were made of calcite

Didn´t go in the water with the crocodiles.

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We visited the area about a month ago but did not have the vinegar with me and I finally got around to doing it today.
we had caught the ferry across to do a day trip up to Cape Tribulation. We had some nice walks along the boardwalk. I was curious about this experiment so decided to give it a go.
Thanks for putting this cache together. A nice easy experiment.

Today we were exploring the Daintree as we hopped on the ferry and cruised up to Cape Tribulation, stopping for some lovely icecream and caches along the way!
I initially wrote off this EarthCache upon reading its description - we don't have vinegar at the apartment, and I've never brought it to the beach even at home!
But I was in for a surprise and it all started to make a bit of sense when I arrived at gz (and not just from the googly eyed sign - photo attached)!
I picked a bit of coral from the shore and carried out the experiment; sure enough, it started bubbling away in no time!
My answers have been sent off to the CO.
Very cool EarthCache that makes full use of the environment - definite favourite point from me!

Thanks to heathtree for placing this here!

My wife and I have been honeymooning about 600m north of WP1 for a few days. After watching the sunrise, we walked down the beach and collected some coral. GZ was not underwater on the low tide. We then continued to walk to the southern end if the beach, where we found some vinegar to conduct our experiment. Once done, we headed back to our accommodation for breaky and a crocodile tour.

Cheers

It was unfortunately a rather gray day at the beach of Cape Trib, but we had a wonderful time there, such a nice beach.
TFTC!

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Amazing area and fun little experiment! Thanks for setting it up heathtree. Worth a favourite point.

Love the scenery with the lookout looking over the water

Made it to this stunning part of our country today with the family. This would be the most northern Australian cache found to date since I started caching. I came prepared with vinegar too then see it available at the entrance to the beach. It was good timing getting there with the sun out after days of rain. We will be back here again to further explore.
Answers sent to co - tftc

Haps
Tfc

To visit Cape tribulation and the Daintree area has been on our list for many years.
We are finally here, and the weather is good and we have spent much time exploring and walking and swimming.
We visited this earth cache, and have sent our answers to the CO.
The area we explored was beautiful, and we enjoyed learning about fringing reefs, along with a little of the history of the Endeavour in this area.
Thanks heathtree
Domsky

Firstly, apologies for the late log. We arrived for our week in Cairns on the 10th and decided the drive up to Cape Trib was the first thing to do. On arrival we wandered along the beach picking up a variety of beach flotsam to bring home to conduct the experiment. Magnificent spot. Answers sent and hope they are satisfactory. Thank you for bringing me to this wonderful part of Qld, certainly worth the drive.

Spending several nights in the Daintree area, so having the time to collect the few caches here (except for the one near Emmagen Creek due to the low-rise car I am renting). Learning new bits of information about the corals and other matter. TFTC in this rainforest!

We were on a Daintree Safari tour so it was tortuous driving past geocaches. I snuck a piece of coral from the beach and brought it back to port Douglas to conduct experiment. If this isn’t ok, please feel free to delete. I have sent photos and answers Tftc heathtree, and for educating me further on coral reefs.
I am so happy to have finally made it to cape tribulation, even with two broken arms.

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 38. Daintree Village Day 2. Caching had taken a bit of a back seat due to there not being many around to do up this way. Today I did all the caches from Pt Douglas to Cape Tribulation. I was a pleasant drive and with the ferry over the Daintree River not running at low tide at the moment, it was a long lazy afternoon north of the river, exploring the boardwalks and beaches along the way.

After a nice walk up the beach, I returned to my car for the experiment. It seemed unsuccessful, but maybe that is the right result ? It is great to learn more about this amazing reef system that attracts me back over and over to the region. Answers sent.

Thanks for the cache heathtree

36407.5 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Geocaching NSW 2016 A#449

**Albida**

We were up in Cairns staying with GrimJeeper and basically due to the weather we had been stuck inside the house so we decided to do a trip up to Cape Tribulation and grab a few caches while we were there.

This earth cache was a definite on the list as we all enjoy these caches and the learning you get from them. We found a piece of coral and took it with us to do the experiment when we got back home. After which we have sent our answers off to the CO and hope that they are good enough for this log to remain, if not we will happily delete it.
We really enjoyed this visit, although the tide was wrong for us it was still a great walk along the beach especially watching the crabs bringing out the little balls of sand from their burrows.

Many thanks heathtree for a very informative earth cache at a place of historical significance, a favourite point from us.

Submitted required information to CO for consideration

Completed the experiment & sent answers with Loci612.

After walking on the short boardwalk nearby, we went to the beach and walked the length to find a suitable piece of coral. Fabulous, thanks!

**This Cache:**

Found with taytayy1!

Another beautiful beach, and this time with an Earthcache to contemplate!
We had to go for a walk along the beach's length, to be able to get to the reference point and the edge of the fringing reef. It was here that we started to find pieces of coral for our experiment! I have taken a photo of a piece of coral we picked up.

The experiment took place and observations sent to the CO. We also did the short walk up to the lookout from here too which was nice!

Thanks for the EC!

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**Today:**

Day 9 of my road trip from Canberra - Townsville Mega Event!

Today we found Cape Tribulation's only Earthcache, and then up even further to Emmagen Creek! We couldn't miss getting to this cache, the northern most without a 4WD! Although in my low 2WD it was still a little bit sketchy. There was about 2 "dips" in the dirt road that were quite deep little ruts, and also a water-filled pothole that made a bit of a bang on my underbody when I went through it. Thankfully we survived, as did the car!

We then went back on the car ferry and did a crocodile cruise! We saw the biggest male croc they know to live on that section of the river, and a couple of baby's!

We headed onto Port Douglas where we would stay two more nights!

Found with TeamOzAllens

Found with OzAllens .

While holidaying in Cairns, I really wanted to go to Cape Tribulation to say that it was the furthest north in Queensland that I had been. So today we planned a big trip. Our first destination was an awesome crocodile river cruise along the Daintree. We then stopped at a lookout as well as doing the Madja botanical walk where we got eaten by midges. Once we got to Cape Tribulation we had lunch at Turtle Rock Cafe. Afterwards we walked to Kulki Lookout to check out the views and to look even further north. We then went to the cache waypoint to find some coral. On the way back to Cairns we stopped and looked at Mossman Gorge. We finally got home at 7:30pm. TFTC and for bringing us here! I feel so happy that I have finally made it this far north! (NOTE: It is now January 2023 and after holding onto those pieces of coral for that long, I finally did the experiment at home and logging the cache!) My photo was taken with my daughter Pinkypie05 from Kulki Lookout as she is in a wheelchair which can't handle the sand.

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Tuesday. We had a wonderful walk along the beach here. A couple of bus loads of people to keep us company this morning. We picked up a tiny piece of coral to bring back to our accommodation with us to do the experiment. Answers sent to CO for consideration. Pic taken of us (we took lots of pics whilst we were up here as well).

This was the 3rd of 4 caches found on this outing.

Thanks ***heathtree*** for showing us this place

Loved this little experiment and all the crocodiles drawn in the sand

Tftc

We came, we walked, we collected and we carted our specimen with us until we came across some vinegar. Where upon the experiment was conducted. Answers sent to CO. Glad to have learnt about the fringing reef, certainly a different beach sight. Tftc

Being in NSW lockdown, I didn’t think it was possible to log a cache for international geocaching day. Then I remembered I had collected a small piece of coral from my visit to Cape Tribulation a few months ago. Life got busy when I got home and I never got around to doing the vinegar test… until tonight!
Thanks for placing an interesting and informative earthcache heathtree. Answers sent

Visited 'Cape Tribulation's Fringing Reef' during a trip from Adelaide to the northern tip of Australia. Traveling up solo through central Queensland, I met up with e.gregory1 and a non-cacher friend near Cairns for the rest of the trip northwards, finding caches along the way. We spent three weeks on the Cape, visiting many out of the way locations and enjoying the scenery. Stopped here to collect samples for the experiments and enjoy another nice spot on the coast. Thanks for an interesting earthcache heathtree!

After taking three weeks to meander my way up from Adelaide to Cairns on my own, I met up with FeatherWaite and another friend to head further north to Cape York.

We spent another three weeks travelling up to the tip and back to Cairns, seeing the sights and finding caches along the way.

We visited this earthcache on our way back to Cairns. What a stunning beach!

Thanks heathtree for an interesting earthcache.

This was a fun and informative way to learn more about coral reefs. TFTC

A beautiful day for geocaching here at the cape and a chance to grab the Earthcache.
We had to take our experiment off site and “back to the lab” in the kitchen of our accommodation.
Unfortunately we only had balsamic vinegar on hand so we hope the result wasn’t tainted.
Thanks for the Earthcache.

Such a beautiful place to visit. Thank you so much for letting us explore! Answers the best we could send to owner. We love our reef!

So much enjoyed this location and so much enjoyed the experiment with the kids in the carpark, we bought some vinegar for the potential stingers as we are from south australia and heard about them up north. thankyou for bringing us here. tftcsl

And here we are. It is 2022, and after moving my life half the world away to Australia, discovering that Geocaching there without my friends was not as fun, generally trying to survive Australian fauna and flora and finding a job, only doing Geocaching on occasion during 2019, and then the pandemic hitting in 2020 and putting almost a complete halt to all traveling and finding, plus finally coming back to Europe to try and redo my life here this year… I have decided to sit down and log online all of the records I had gathered offline during these years. Some are lost forever (don’t trust your phone for years on end with offline logs), but hopefully I will manage to recover enough logs to paint a few broad strokes of what these years were, and the places they took me to.
Apologies in advance to all owners for this (in some cases, very) delayed logging. I can only say that sometimes we are not in the best place, and it takes time to find oneself. Thanks in advance for the hides, the places you took me to, and the stories you shared in the way.

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We got married! And as things are a bit calmer now, we decide to head north and enjoy a bit of Queensland for our very short honeymoon. One week away to see the coral reef, volcano tubes and the jungles/marshes. It is all super quick and fun, and we get a bit of time for geocaching on the side.

TFTC!

With overseas travel currently out of the question and state border closures still a lurking as possibilities, my family and some close friends decided that travelling from Brisbane to North Queensland was our best option for a Christmas/New Year escape.

After a few nights in Clifton Beach the tribe was moving on to Port Douglas for a couple of nights before turning south for home. Rather than heading direct to Port Douglas we decided on a trip up to the Daintree and Cape Tribulation beforehand.

Although the Covid-19 restrictions mean there are no overseas tourists at the moment, it was still quite busy with muggles and a few mini buses parked in the car park. Would hate to have seen how busy it would be in peak period, pre Covid.

We went for a walk along the beach a short distance, which allowed me to find a couple of samples of coral to test. After some photos we found a vacant picnic table for lunch before the drive back to Port Douglas. TFTC

What a spectacular drive. Was hard finding much coral on the beach today but the sands were spectacularly sparkly amongst the crab homes! TFTC

We conquered the Bloomfield Track in the Mazdarati!!!

Nice spot here. Answers sent.

TFTEC Heathree

We hired a car and ventured up to the Cape. What a fantastic view from the platform and from the beach. The winding roads and the lookouts along the way made the trip well worthwhile. TFT EC

OMG ... what a magnificent place. Ben here half a dozen times in the last 30 years ... but not since 2005. Breath taking xx

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

We made this interesting experiment, but we can't believe our result.
If this would be right, I would be very glad.
Thank you for showing this to us, otherwise I wouldn't believe it.
TFTC

Found it

Three weeks in Australia with MMBB1! A packed timetable involving Singapore, Melbourne, Ayers Rock, Port Douglas, the Barrier Reef, Airlie Beach, Fraser Island and Sydney before coming back home to Ireland transiting via Singapore and Heathrow. This was not built as a geocaching trip but I planned to grab one or two that we would be passing, mostly earthcaches and virtuals but the odd trad too. My only "must-do" caches were the three Jasmers only available in Australia and the US. The holiday was great but due to the world situation we ended up coming home via Cairns - Brisbane - Dubai - Dublin a week early, missing Airlie, Fraser and Sydney as well as two of the precious Jasmers. Ah well, I'm sure there'll be a part two at some stage once normal service has been resumed.

We had been at Ayers Rock for a few days and had flown into Cairns and travelled onwards to Port Douglas yesterday, for a few nights at the Meridian hotel. Food had been gotten, sleep had been had and we got up for breakfast and headed downstairs to the tour bus for a trip up to Cape Tribulation. We stopped at the Mossman Gorge (the last day it would be open), went on a boat down the Daintree River, and had a BBQ lunch outdoors. It was then onwards up to Cape Trib, which would be the northern point of the tour.

Firstly we went up to the viewpoint before heading down onto the beach itself for a good look around. And I have to say, what a beach this was. Glorious place. Such a crying shame that due to the jellyfish risk we couldn't even go paddling today. It would probably have been ok but our (excellent) tour driver wouldn't have wanted the lawsuits! After a walk around and some nice photos, I grabbed two pieces of coral and slipped them into my pocket having washed the sand out. I know we shouldn't really remove them, but needs must and we did not have vinegar with us even though we could have nicked a sachet from a restaurant. Hindsight.

Fast forward, and we got home, did our level best to answer the questions (plenty of vinegar available at home), and sent them in. Lovely to get a cache here, a beach we'll both remember and possibly the most northerly cache in Australia we'll find anytime soon.

After the cache find we headed down back to Port Douglas via an ice-cream stop. A great day and a really good tour guide! And this cache to boot.

Having just left the stifling heat of outback Australia, our next stop was to be tropical north queensland. Landed in to Cairns before making the journey up to Port Douglas. Our first trip was to Mossman Gorge and Cape Tribulation - what a beautiful area! As we were part of a tour group, caching opportunities were limited and this was the first cache that we were able to visit during our trip to the area (we were also on holiday and taking a very relaxed attitude to caching). After a delicious lunch, we made our way to the Cape Tribulation lookout point, before enjoying a walk along Cape Trib beach; the location of this earthcache.
Coral was examined and answers have been sent to the CO on behalf of myself and THE_Chris. A few days later, we got the opportunity to see Australia's famous coral reef during a snorkelling trip to Agincourt reef - a great experience!
We were now off to enjoy some ice cream at the nearby Daintree Ice Cream Co! Very yummy it was too.
TFTEC in this really beautiful area! Loved Queensland - beautiful scenic area with perfect weather!

Greetings from Scotland. We read about this earthcache on the way to Cape Tribulation from Port Douglas. We were disappointed to note that we were unlikely to be able to claim this as we didn't have anything with us for our field experiment. We certainly didn't want to be taking coral off the beach. Imagine our surprise when a little while later we realised we had access to everything we needed. It had been heaving rain the whole journey up the coast but the rain stopped as soon as we arrived at Cape Trib. We walked along the beach and picked up a couple of small bits of coral to conduct our experiment. Our answers are been sent off to the CO. Nice idea for an earthcache and a beautiful location.


*This is our 10519th logged find. Found at 11:05 hrs.* TFTC

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I am logging this several months after finding the cache as I have only just done the experiment. I collected my specimen on the beach once I had worked out what I was looking for. I did not have any vinegar on me and did not want to use the medical vinegar we came across so I took the bit of coral home. Answers on their way to the CO. This is a spectacular spot and marks the furthest North we ventured on our Australian tour. TFTC.

Visiting a few caches during our Australia trip. Stopped here on a Dantree tour, so grabbed this cache as well. Didn't want to use the vinegar in reserve for emergencies, so I saved the experiment and did it later. Very cool! I learned a few new things from this earthcache. Answers sent. Thanks for the fun!

22 days vacation in Australia, a big round trip around the red continent. Adelaide & Kangaroo Island, Darwin & Kakadu National Park & Yellow Waters, Alice Springs & Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Port Douglas & Rainforest & Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island, Blue Mountains, Sydney - what a trip! It's been great, it's been exhausting, it's given us so many impressions of this country that we'll need another few weeks to process all of these.
Of course there were also a lot of geocaches along our track and we tried to find them whenever they were (more or less ) on our path. Due to the amount of places, impressions and geocaches I'm unfortunately able to write a detailled log for each of them, but we appreciated every single one of them.
Thanks heathtree for placing and maintaining this cache!

Beautiful day up north today after crossing on the Daintree river ferry this morning. Stunning beaches, stunning forrest walks and great fun zip lining. Cape Tribulation was a stunning spot. Thanks for helping bring me here. And thanks for the earth cache.

Un petit peu de pluie lorsque nous sommes arrivés à Cap Tribulations. Nous avons trouvé des coraux sur le sable. Il nous a fallu faire deux expériences pour voir quelque chose et envoyer la réponse a l'owner.
Merci pour cette earth cache . 1 FAV
Bonjour de la France

The mini rats have been away on holidays with the Rats on another fantastic family holiday. We made it all the way to Cape York and along the way we found this cache. Thanks for adding to the thrill of our holiday.
Sorry the log is a standard template style. Answers sent by the Rats

The Rats and mini rats have just returned from an amazing 6-week adventure to Cape York. Along the way we had time to stop and grab a big handful of caches, some of our finds were in the remotest parts of Australia. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing your cache, you've all contributed to us having a great holiday. Apologises for the generic log.

Loved this part of the Queensland coast. We spent a lovely time exploring the beach and our experiemnt was interesting.
Answers sent to CO

TFTC

Thanks to Trish - the owner of our B&B (who gave me the vinegar) I was able to conduct the experiment and after some internet-search also make the necessary conclusions. Hope my answers were OK - TFTC!

What an amazing place to visit, loved every minute I was here and to cap it off a brilliant Earthcache to attempt .

Answers to the questions have been sent to the CO.

Thanks for setting up this Earthcache. Fav point awarded.

Back in Germany, we now log all our fieldnotes. We had a fantastic time Down Under and we will definitly come back. As we can not make a special log for avery one, we use this specimen one. Thx to all the COs that made our visit more interesting. We really enjoyed the caching in Australia. G'day, .... and no worries, we will come back.

Einen lieben Gruß hinterlässt die GYLDe in dieser nun lachenden Schatzkiste DFDC

Vielen Dank für's Herlocken, Legen und Pflegen!
Many thanks for placing and leading me out here!
Bedankt voor het plaatsen en om me naar hier te lokken!
¡Muchas gracias por este cache que me ha traído hasta aquí!
¡Moltes gràcies per amagar i per mostrar-nos aquest indret!
Merci pour cette cache et les amener aussi à ce endroit!
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TFTC Beautiful spot, I can see why Cook stayed a while! Coral is in my hand in photo along with co-ords. Answers to follow!

Pour mon deuxième passage ici
Je logue avec un PF

A visit to Cape Tribulation today for me
A place that's on everyone's bucket list it seems [:o]
I don't have a bucket list
That's just online silliness to me !!

I just visit places [^]
And here is a place I have visited before
A beautiful place that's worth having a Captain Cook at

No tribulations, or mounting sorrows in me endeavours to find answers to these Earthcache questions
Answers sent ...
... so 'smilie' earnt

TFTC !!

Fave dance as always for an EC.

We came all the way from Germany to pick up our son, who spent the last six month in the Noosa area as an exchange student, and discover this beautiful country. Obviously, a beautiful Country also has some very cool geocaches....

forgot the images in the previous log.

Thanks for the Cache from Mojolucani

We came all the way from Germany to pick up our son, who spent the last six month in the Noosa area as an exchange student, and discover this beautiful country. Obviously, a beautiful Country also has some very cool geocaches....

this is our northernmost point of the journey. Further up we can’t go, because winter is here and the RV can’t pass the road.....

This was a really great earthcache. I never had one with an experiment to do on site! Luckily, there was some vinegar on spot, and we found two nice pieces of coral we could experiment with

Thanks for the Cache from Mojolucani

Great spot for a cache. After jumping into the swimming hole we walked along this lonesome beach and just enjoyed its beauty. Cape Trib was definitely worth visiting!

Great place to visit. Northern most point of our trip on the east coast.
But hope to go once more and travel North and visit Cooktown.

Thanks for the cache!

This is such a beautiful part of the world!
We saw some lovely big blue butterflies here in the forest - such a treat.
Having been to the tip of Cape York, we arrived in Cape Trib via the Bloomfield Track.
After putting air in our tyres for the onward journey south we took a walk along the beach.
This is the first earthcache we’ve done an experiment. That was a bit of fun learning.
Answers have been sent.
Thanks heaps heathtree. ????

Staying in Port Douglas for a few days. Headed up to Cape Tribulation today. Located five caches during the course of the day. Managed to find some coral on the beach after a while, and following through on the experiment. Answers to the questions being sent to the CO. Nice to “pick up” a cache at this point. #2643. TFTC.

Greetings from Wellington, NZ.