Thursday morning Lily woke with a strange bite on her palm and Emmy’s leech find from the night before had left a mark. We cycle through the shower and debate what to wear. Most of us were running low on jungle clothes but didn’t want to wear wet clothes all day if the rain persisted, which seemed likely, so much for the shower.
Opting out of the local breakfasts limited options we hit the road early and crossed the river to see our breakfast options on the other side. 
The Daintree village café didn’t disappoint. Emily had lamington, a vanilla cake dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut for breakfast. We had been searching for it so when she found it she had to try it.
We let the girls look around the local souvenir shop before heading to look for crocs. 
We were stunned to find sunshine - like seriously we hadn’t seen the sun in more than glimpses since we left Sydney. I worried we might need sunscreen but didn’t want to bother since the boat was covered, I did drench all of us in bug spray which left us smelling bad enough no one wanted to sit by us and I never saw a single bug, did I say so much for that shower?
Our hour-long croc tour in the beautiful sunshine revealed the devastation from the cyclone. The side we had just left had obviously been hit much harder than the other. Our guide was entertaining and left us all with a healthy fear of entering any water where crocs may be present - “it’s too easy” to stay safe. We were lucky enough to catch site of a little baby croc and a big female. She was hiding but you could get a feel for how big she was. We didn’t spot any really big males, but the girls enjoyed the trip and the sunshine.
Greg wasn’t feeling great, so he dropped us off at a café while we rested in the car. Lily’s gigantic kids’ burger surprised us with its size and the Easter bunny meringue surprised us with how amazing it was.
Our drive back to Cairns had incredible views of the coastline. I tried to capture it but failed to ever get a good photo - cyclone construction had blocked off any viewpoint turnouts. 
We took a quick stop to see the agile wallaby only to realize that we had already seen them in the tablelands. Still cool though. The girls entertained themselves in the back seat with the Ditten Game - pretend to be Ditten while a sister pets you then suddenly nip and scare the petter.
Our instructions to Barron Falls were a bit off but eventually we found the trail and enjoyed a little walk and the amazing falls across the canyon. The silliness from the car was still flowing strong with Lily and Kate running around and around the circular areas of the walkway pretending that they were a revolving door.
In Cairns we stopped at a Woolsworth for dinner. The supermarket was in an upscale mall; we may have looked a bit out of place in our shabby jungle clothes complete with whiffs of bug spray.
At the airport we chugged water, enjoyed our dinner and Tim Tams knowing that there would be no food or drink on this next flight to Sydney. We said goodbye to Queensland, the reef, and the rainforest. All of us were happy to arrive at our clean, dry, bug-free, air-conditioned, quite hotel room. We loved our jungle stay but it was nice to end the trip staying in a comfortable hotel. We spread out all our wet clothes in hopes of things drying (fruitless) and headed to bed.
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