Jungle Surfing through the Rainforest

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We had booked ourselves onto a Jungle Surfing activity for the first afternoon we had in Cape Tribulation. On being picked up for the short but very steep ride into the Rainforest it was clear we were the only four people doing it…perfect numbers! We were strapped into our harnesses and crash helmets and lead along the very wet and rugged path to the first surfing point. We were to spend most of the journey attached to zip lines passing from tree to tree. Starting at the lowest point close to the mountain edge we had to be winched up slightly to the next vantage point, which although only looked about a metre higher than we started, due the ground falling away was actually now 12.5 metres above ground.

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At every stop off point the guide would tell us about the local trees and history of the area. The Cape Tribulation section of the Daintree is the most ancient and primitive in the world...135 million years old.

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We then descended through the canopy of the trees to the next point. With the ground falling away as quickly as it was, we were now 20 metres above the floor of the forest; the highest stop off we would get while being just a couple of metres short of clearing the tops of the trees.

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The next run was to be the longest at 80 metres and this time we went in pairs. They stopped our descent just as we were over the flowing waterfalls of the Mason Creek. We then continued back down to what would be the speed run!

Here, we were told to slide of the ledge we were standing on so we were completely suspeded. We were used to this now, but the line we were about to take was a lot steeper than before and once released, we flew through the palm trees, back over the creek and to an abrupt stop at the end where we had our photos taken while dangling about 14metres up.

The last one was upside down. Paul nearly passed out as we fiddled to get the best mode on our cameras to take photos! It was only a relatively short run but good fun to be hung upside down while being flown the the jungle!

We saw some amazing sights up in the canopy and risked our cameras in the pouring rain to hopefully get some decent photos!  Have a look at our Flickr site for more images.