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Billy Tea | Daintree Rainforest & Bloomfield Track Day Tour
Billy Tea Safaris operates small personalised tours to the Daintree Rainforest. Your naturalist guides have extensive knowledge of flora, fauna, history of the area and aboriginal culture, which will ensure you day will be a memory of a life time.

 

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3 Day Daintree, Tablelands & Chillagoe Caves
Small group tours to the Daintree, Tablelands & Chillagoe Caves and outback QLD. Find the hidden gems of this fantastic region!

 

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Billy Tea Bush Safaris Info

BILLY TEA BUSH SAFARIS:
Billy Tea Safaris is a locally owned operator, which operates small personalised tours to Cape Tribulation.  Your naturalist guides have extensive knowledge of flora, fauna, history of the area and aboriginal culture, which will ensure you day will be a memory of a life time.

Why we like it?

  • Custom built air-con Safari vehicle
  • Exotic fruit & Billy Tea
  • Passionate knowledgeable guides
  • Freshly cooked lunch
  • Small Personalised tours - maximum 14 guests
  • Exclusive freshwater swim at Emmagen Creek
  • Exclusive tour 4WD only Bloomfield Track

Departures:

  • Cairns from 7am and returns 6:30pm
  • Northern Beaches from 7:20am and returns 6:00pm
  • Port Douglas from 8:20am and returns 5:30pm

Your tour includes: 

  • Environmentalist driver / guide
  • Courtesy hotel pick-up and return
  • Scenic coastal drive
  • 1 hour Daintree River Cruise and morning tea
  • Alexandra Range Lookout
  • Guided National Park elevated boardwalk tour
  • Hand feed kangaroos
  • Tropical BBQ lunch (please advise of any dietary requirements)
  • Walk on Cape Tribulation beach or Botanical Boardwalk (swimming is allowed seasonally)

Your Day: 

  • Drive north along the scenic coastal route along the Captain Cook Highway learning about the history of the area and admiring spectacular views of the coast line and Coral Sea.

  • Stop at the Majestic Daintree River for Morning Tea before enjoying a guided River Cruise on the Daintree River. Learn of Estuarine Crocodiles, mangrove forests and endemic wildlife. 

  • Ascend the Alexandra Range and pause for a panoramic view of World Heritage Rainforest merging with the azure colours of the Coral Sea.  Experience the rainforest on one of the guided elevated Boardwalks.

  • Travel onto Lync Haven animal refuge where you have the opportunity to hand feed a kangaroo and get up close to some of Australia?s wildlife.  Enjoy a gourmet barbecue lunch with freshly prepared salads in a beautiful rainforest setting restaurant. 

  • Travel through spectacular Rainforest as you pass Cape Tribulation and continue along the 4WD Bloomfield Track through to Emmagen Creek. Time for a refreshing rainforest stream swim, in crystal clear freshwaters. 

  • Visit Cape Tribulation Beach .  Stroll along the beach and boardwalk to the photographers' platform overlooking the mountains and coast where the 'Rainforest meets the Reef'

  • Time permitting stop at the Daintree Ice Cream Factory. Your taste buds will be tantalized with exotic tropical fruit home-made ice cream. Sample unique flavours, such as Black Sapote, Soursop, and Coconut just to name a few. (Additional cost)

  • After a short afternoon refreshment stop, cross the Daintree River by cable ferry and begin the homeward journey.

Please Note: This tour runs in reverse occasionally. 

What to Bring:

  • Comfortable clothing & footwear
  • Water bottle
  • Swimmers & towel
  • Sunscreen and insect repellent
  • Camera
  • Money for Ice cream (Subject to time)

GOOD NEWS: All payments made to Travstar do not incur a credit card surcharge.

Travellers Tale:
Billy Tea Bush Safari

The day started at seven am with our pick up. Our driver-guide, Chris, met us and introduced himself and our vehicle, Wombat, to us. We then zipped around the city and up to Palm Cove picking up the rest of the group.  Chris would introduce everyone as they hopped aboard Wombat and by the end of the first stage of the day there were eleven travelers who came from Australia, Japan, Italy, America, and Britain. What a varied group of travelers we were.

From the very beginning Chris informed us of the history of the area and the natural world that it is made up of. We learnt that Cairns was founded as a port in 1876 to transport the materials being logged and mined in the surrounding areas to their final destinations.  In fact Chris was a babbling brook of information for the whole journey. At every point he was able to paint a picture of the history, both European and Indigenous, fill us in on the industrial concerns, tell us about the plant and animal life and even include up to date comments on the politics relevant to our landscape. This made the tour far more than an eleven hour scenic drive because we gained an appreciation for the area that went beyond aesthetics.

And how pretty this part of the world is. From the moment you pass Palm Cove and leave the last fragments of Cairns' creeping suburbs, nature begins to have its 'way with you'. For half an hour we wound up along the coast road towards our first stop of the day, Mossman. To our left we had hills and trees and to our right we had the ocean.  We picked a good day to take part in the tour as rain could be seen before and behind us while we were untouched. And that made the views all the more interesting as we got to see the two sides of the area, the blue skies and perfect weather of the brochure and the wet that allows the tropics to survive.

In Mossman we hopped out and stretched our legs next to the magnificent Jamaican raintrees.  Chris shared some information about how the trees got to be in Mossman and the church that sits underneath their branches. He also gave a nice overview of Mossman's lifeblood, the sugar cane industry. And it was when he was doing this that another advantage of choosing Billy Tea Bush Safaris to see the North came through; our other travelers began asking questions.  The tour was personal and interactive because although we were going to set destinations our opportunity to learn about the area was only limited by our curiosity.

Our next stop was at the Daintree River. Here we had our first smoko, tea and biscuits, before hopping onto a boat for a river cruise. Our guide for this section was a man called Bill. Like Chris, Bill had a thorough knowledge of his surroundings. As we cruised along the banks in search of crocodiles, snakes and birds Bill informed us of the history of the area while using his keen eye to spot wildlife. We were fortunate to see crocodiles raging from nine weeks to six years in age as well as two types of snakes and a beautiful Azure Kingfisher. 

Bill's humour was as keen as his eye he managed to throw in as many jokes and puns as facts adding to the enjoyment of the cruise.
After the boat ride we were ferried across the river and into the Daintree Forest.  This was my fifth trip to the Daintree and the beauty of the area always humbles me. What was different about this journey was Chris' commentary as it managed to increase my sense of fascination and awe. We were informed that we were now traveling through the oldest rainforest on Earth and that within this World Heritage area the most primitive plant life on Earth can be found. We were literally within a cradle of life.


 

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Guest Reviews

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A fantastic day would recommend

Posted By KENNETH MARK WILKINSON

Fantastic trip

Fantastic trip and the driver/guide was very very knowledgeable and made the trip so much more interesting!

Posted By Christina Vinehall

Witty and personable guide.

Hirani was a knowledgeable, witty and personable guide.

Posted By Adrian Read

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