Stripey Possum visits the cottage

Next to the B&B cottage is an Ice Cream Bean – a huge legume tree with wonderful boughs, and long thick beans with seeds inside them – loved by the local children and enjoyed by fruit tasters as something different.

This seedling is now 6 metres high and it shouldn’t be there – it blocks the view from the balcony to the mountain –in the avenue to the cottage.

Our guests sitting on the balcony late one evening hear a scratching in the boughs of the ice-cream bean, shine the torch to the sound and there looking down on them is a tiny Stripey Possum.

These possums are relatively rare – in the twenty years I have lived here I have only seen 3 – one in a tree only 3 metres away from this location. It is an animal that the guides search for on night walks and rarely find.

The irony is wonderful. Our guests are driving twenty minutes south to do a nightwalk with a guide, who is looking for stripey possums to show them. They don’t see one on the nightwalk, and then return home around 10.30 pm and there is the stripey.

It is there for the next four nights – arriving at about 7.30 and loitering for a couple of hours to feed on the beans.

I want it all

I have just found this hilarious story from two travellers who did the fruit tasting on our farm, and thought others might enjoy it too. Here is an extract:

The first thing I noticed about the land cruiser that came to take us to the farm was that it had a snorkel. Cars should not have snorkels. Cars are not boats.

Walking the Bibbulman Track from end to end

Over 2 months - February and March, we walked the Bibbulman Track from Albany to Perth in Western australia, taking 52 days, and travelling nearly 1000 km on foot. There are campsites located approximately every 20 kms. Here is our story as a slideshow. We are thrilled to be home, and already planning our next walk! - either the Larapinta Trail or the Appalachian Trail

Cottage used as backdrop and Mia is a star

A close friend - Val Schier is running for mayor of the Cairns Regional Council so I helped the campaign by creating some videos for her on youtube to help get her messages across. She is very passionate about suitable tropical design for housing, and our B&B cottages were used as the backdrop.



Mia got to be the 'doggie interest' in the video on animal management. She wasnt too impressed at the beginning but soon got involved!

Showcasing our B&B cottage

TTNQ AWARD WINNER

 

Here I am up on the stage of the Cairns Convention Centre, as President of the Daintree Coast Tourism Association receiving the Tropical North Queensland Toursim Award for Visitor Information and Services. behind me are the other members of the executive - Marion, Prue and Terry.

It was quite an event with more than 500 people attending.

Gary's Safaris new tour includes our farm

Gary's Safaris have created the 'Daintree Adventure' full day tour to Cape Tribulation. Our fruit tasting is included in the price of this tour - $155 pp. It is also possible to go jungle surfing as an optional extra. This tour operates only on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and departs Palm Cove at 6.45am and Port Douglas at 7.30am.

The tour includes

Guided national park walks OR the choice of jungle surfing for an extra $80, payable on board.
Exotic fruit tasting and orchard walk at Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm.
A visit to the Bat House, the only accredited Wet Tropics Environment Centre at Cape Trib where you get to eyeball a bat.
Lunch at Coconut Beach Resort which provides a hot and cold buffet lunch.
A visit to the Daintree Discovery Centre and the canopy tower and the aerial walk

Phone 4098 2699 or book online via our secure server.