For the kids
Fun for the kids
Maybe your kids are just not that interested in seeing the reef or a bunch of old trees! Let’s face it, when you’re at that age you spend most of your time with a gadget of some description in one hand and the TV remote in the other. You’re connected online 24/7 and the latest post on your favourite social network is far more important than an old growth forest with a plant species that has lived there for 120 million years.
Sound like your kids? Then they need to get their holiday happening big time!
The best way to see the rainforest is up there in the canopy where all the action is.
Forget about the net, you need to surf the jungle with
Cape Tribulation Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours.
Fly through the trees on flying fox ziplines, stopping at 5 tree platforms to take in the spectacular bird’s eye views.
Or how about Jungle Rumble Quad Adventures
? Heaps of flat out fun for the whole family to quad bike around the old rainforest logging tracks.
Why not try the whacky water activity of Jungle Balls.
Climb inside a transparent three metre high rubber ball, add a few buckets of water and slip slide your way over the custom built track.
Try wakeboarding, kneeboarding or waterskiing at CableSki.
Cableski is situated on the Captain Cook Highway at Smithfield about 45 minutes drive from Port Douglas.
Every kid loves a little old steam engine (especially if they look like Thomas The Tank) and The Bally Hooley steam trains Speedy and Bundy are a perfect match. Operating on Sundays and some Wednesdays the Bally Hooley is one of the world’s great train journey’s.
Boarding at the Marina Mirage these genuine coal fired steam locomotives take a bit under one hour for the return trip passing through attractive areas of mangrove, and passing right behind the rear of The Mango Tree. The journey concludes at St. Crispins station alongside a tidal lake at St. Crispins where a couple of resident crocodiles can often be seen. At the terminus of St. Crispins Station, the locomotive is turned around on the turntable for the start of the return run to the Marina. Listen out for the hoot hoot as they pass by Mango Tree several times a day.
