The Daintree Rainforest

A German guy approaches me and says that he's heard in driving to Darwin in the morning. I asked him if he had any dirty habits I should know about, he said 'yes, I have lots of dirty habits but none that you should know about'. So we left for Darwin but I was going the long way. First stop the Daintree, then West to Uluru and Alice Springs, then right up the middle to Darwin. Having wondered previously whether I had underestimated the distances of travel involved, Alexander the German ran out of time and never made it all the way to Darwin but we had a really good trip nevertheless. The Daintree is (so the scientists reckon) the oldest rainforest in the world. There are more plant species in one Hectare than in the whole of Europe. Our timing was lucky as we arrived at the river, a tin boat was about to launch a bunch of tourists to check out some crocodiles, naturally we jumped aboard.