Good morning, today we've already had breakfast and we decided to start
this adventure to go to a cool walk. This is the road
and we are in Adventure Mode ON! If before it seemed already like Jurassic Park,
now, even more!
We've arrived at a point in the road that says "4WD vehicles only past this point".. picture
Well, here we see why ..
we have a section of the river that obviously only
4WD can cross.. and crocs
This is the most we can get north with our van. By this road
We are in the middle of the jungle
and after crossing quite a while the jungle
we've reached this beautiful part of the river.. so cool
what happens is that it's not rain season now so the water level is low..
there is also a swing rope to jump in the water
Battle to see who is the first to jump in the water
Here we see how along the road the vegetation
is completely covered in dust
Now we're going to do this walk "Dubuji"
It is this boardwalk, this wooden path.. now we are here, we will do all
the way to the beach
Here we are with our expert
in tropical fruits, Miss Laura, with who we just
found a very rare fruit. Very very rare ..
Tell us Miss
What's so strange about that? Well, I think I had not seen before a blue fruit.
From now on we will say a lot the world "mangrove" in spanish (mandrágora), but in a wrong way (mangrovia), because in italian it's called like that. We apologise to Oscar, which told us the correct way to say it.. but too late ;)
Mangrove area
They grow basically on sand
very particular this plant
We are now leaving the tropical area
to enter the marina area of the Barrier Reef
Except for this beached whale
It is stunning
Laura has just spotted these holes
and all these little balls of sand
They are all over the beach, it'is full
It is full full full .. How curious, very curious!
We just met that guy over there that told us that they are mini crabs
that are making the hole and go pulling out the balls
and we have seen one and they are very little
Here we have the mini crabs
"Oh no, this is not my house!"
We have also found these mounds of sand .. and it is sand.
It seems fossilized poo ..
Very curious..
But this one we actually have no idea what can be
Here they are more the tower type
and over there
they are all balls .. it's like another urbanization
We just also find this larger crab
Wow it's so fast!
Look at the style of Miss Laura .. very hipster.
The explanation is that it's not hipster, it is protection against all
It's twenty to eight in the morning and today we are going to do
a very cool activity that is .. Let's go to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef and maybe
we're going to see turtles!
Here we are with Miss Laura, who is
super iper excited about this adventure. Miss Laura,
tell us how you feel.
I'm actually pretty nervous because It's something I wanted to do for a long time
and now finally we are going to catch the bus that will lead us to the Great Barrier Reef
so I'm a little nervous, as you can also tell by my words, but I am
very happy
Of course, because it is not a bus, it is a
boat - but from here to the boat you go by bus
First stage of the tour
wear the suit
Beautiful
Clearly, I put it the way around
The as****e is laughing a lot - please let's observe it
turn around
and with the knees behind .. perfect baby, perfect. We start well.
We are going towards the boat
We're already onboard!
We've just arrived.
To the water turtles!
We have reached the second spot
where do snokeling
So now ..
to the water again!
We have already got off!
In here it's supposed to have crocodiles so let's quickly go out of the water.
Wow! We have seen 3 or 4 turtles, lots of starfish, blue, gorgeous. A green one, but I don't know if we caught it on video.
And it has been spectacular, beautiful beautiful. I loved the turtles. They are the best.
They are much more beautiful than I thought, super impressive.
I knew I liked them, but now that I've seen them in live, in nature and we swam with them
How pretty
Super nice, and the way they ate,
Like this And super nice when they went
slowly up and blub, they drew their heads out of the water, caught a little air and went downwards again
Gorgeous .. I loved it.
Hurray for the sea turtles.
And this is a really cool tour
and they are very nice people, very friendly
Ocean Safari
We have spent the last two nights in this campsite, which is part of the
same company that runs also the tour we have done today
It is a very quiet and super cool camping with lots of animals around
and birds, especially a very funny black bird, this.
Where? I'll put a picture ..
Ah! I thought it was there..
which makes plenty of sound and is very nice, it is so funny
And in this camping, as it is placed between two large colonies of this
type of bird, you can see a lot of them around
It' been a very good experience
very good staff, super clean bathrooms and kitchen.. very handsome
We recommend it, 100%
Lau is complaining that a march fly has bitten her.
It has landed on the sock, I already wear them high so I wouldn't be bitten
but it was on the sock and I still felt the bite
F****r
Let's do the "Marrja Botanical Walk"
I find this very interesting: it says that there are few places in the world where
plants represent all stages of evolution over the past
400 millions of years.. all stages are
on this way.
1.2 km. Here we go - Lets go.
Let's start with this plant that looks like a normal palm tree and indeed this
has appeared 230 million years ago along with the dinosaurs.
A little old.
But it looks good.
These super nice palms, super curious and roundish,
are called "Fan Palms"
they give these red fruits
very curious, very curious and pretty
This is another very curious plant, it grows in the trunk of trees and
below it has a root system protected by these brown leaves
that catch the falling leaves from above, which will be the nutrients
of the plant and these green leaves that go up
that serves to capture sunlight and for photosynthesis
Often birds, snakes and mice
use them as nest.
This plant is called Cannonball mangrove.
For this fruit literally .. PUFF makes noise and everything when it explodes
and scatters the seeds all around.
That's why it's called .. Cannon Ball
That means.. cannon ball.
These are the grey mangroves, they are the 4WD
of plants because what they can do is to live in..
They grow in salt water, mud, sand, rock
or fresh water.
Apart from the main body, they also have these
small roots out of the ground that help the plant breathe and take nutrients
Both the red and orange mangrove's seeds germinate
in the parent plant
and when the seed converts to plant
when there is a good chance to leave the parent plant
it separates and puts down its own roots
This other mangrove is called Looking Glass mangrove
It has these very curious roots.
This plant, "Riparosa Genus", is very
rare and depends almost 100%, the germination of its seeds,
on the cassowaries
And here we are with Miss Laura that will explain us why.
It says that if the seeds are eaten by the cassowary, there is a 92% chance that the
plant will germinate, however if it doesn't get eaten, if it simply drops,
there is a 4% chance for the seed to germinate.
So the survival of this plant depends on the cassowaries and their survival.
Thank you Miss Laura, very good explanation.
Here we conclude our walk.
We are making a stop at Thornton Beach and the very first thing
we just saw stepping on the beach is that island
lying in the middle of nowhere near the beach, so green.. super gorgeous!
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