Billy Tea Safaris: Cape Tribulation, Daintree, Bloomfield Track, Chillagoe Caves & Outback Tours

Cape Tribulation / Daintree / 4WD Bloomfield Track Day Tour

Day begins with boarding your custom built 4WD Billy Tea Safari vehicle for early morning transfers from your hotel accommodation from Cairns the Northern Beaches and Port Douglas, this is so you don’t miss seeing any of the animal activity at its peak times early morning and late afternoon as it is cooler and they come out to forage around on the rainforest floors.

Breath Taking Scenery

As you drive along the Captain Cook Highway with Billy Tea Safaris you will be amazed with breath taking scenery of the coastline, then as you go through oastal farming communities of the regions of Mossman, and then onto rainforest mountains of Cape Tribulation and Daintree World Heritage Rainforests.

Activities

Your first experience of the World Heritage Daintree Rainforest with Billy Tea Safaris will be Morning Tea and then all aboard a river boat to glide down the Majestic Daintree River with your Naturalist Guide to see the elusive Estuarine Crocodiles, Snakes, and an array of birdlife beautiful butterflies and many other species of wildlife.

From here you then reboard your Billy Tea Safaris 4WD Vehicle to traverse the Alexandra Range for photo opportunities, enjoy an elevated guided National Park Boardwalk to learn more about the indigenous flora and fauna and the rainforest history and its inhabitants. Then it is off to enjoy an Aussie BBQ Lunch (dietary requirements catered for on advice) and to hand feed Kangaroos.

We then climb aboard our custom built Billy Tea Safaris Vehicle to explore some of the famous 4WD Bloomfield Track to see Ancient Rainforest Trees, pristine rainforest look for the elusive Southern Cassowary, Australia’s largest flightless bird. We then enjoy a swim in a pristine cool mountain stream Emmagen Creek, whilst savouring some of the local exotic Tropical fruits and a traditional cup of Billy Tea and Australian Damper. Now it is time to visit Cape Tribulation Beach to learn about history and to admire the beauty of this magical place where the World Heritage Rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef. Now we head for Cairns and enjoy a home made tropical ice cream from the Daintree Ice-Creamery before boarding the Daintree Cable Ferry across the majestic Daintree River on our way home.

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Chillagoe Caves & Australian Outback Day Tour

Your day starts with one of the Billy Tea Safaris custom built 4WD vehicles picking you up from your city accommodation and then we make our way up over the McAllister Range, this scenic drive will take you through World Heritage Rainforest as you make your way up to the Atherton Tablelands and the scenery changes dramatically as you make your way over the Great Dividing Range to the start of the Australian Outback.

Activities

First stop off is the Mareeba Wetlands a place that Birders and Naturalists have on their bucket lists to visit as these wetlands have huge variety of rare and endangered species of mammals, birds, butterflies, flora and fauna as well as the sheer beauty. Here we enjoy Morning Tea and a Boat Cruise on the Lagoon to learn more about this fragile eco system.

Then it’s back aboard the Billy Tea Safaris 4WD to travel over the Great Dividing Range to the Australian Outback, seeing Emus, Kangaroos, Wedge Tail Eagles and lots more Australian native wildlife. We will take a step back in time, to see old historic mining town’s enroute to the historic township of Chillagoe. We will explore the old copper smelters whose chimneys dominate the skyline before enjoying a true Aussie Pub Lunch at the Historical Chillagoe Pub which was built at the turn of the century.

Chillagoe Caves

After lunch its now time to explore and take a step back in time to take a guided walk through the four million year old limestone Chillagoe Caves and to see the fossilized remains of ancient coral reefs and limestone labyrinths that make up these majestic caves. The Chillagoe Caves were made from ground water percolating and dissolving the limestone and forming limestone towers that just kept on increasing in size.

Your guided tour will be with a Chillagoe-Mungana Caves National Park Ranger thru the Donna, Trezkinn and Royal Arch Caves which are classed as some of the best in the world. These caves do have pathways but it is always recommended that you have sensible walking shoes and there are some steps to negotiate. The Donna Cave is beautifully lit to show off the limestone towers and formations which is also great for your photography images. The Trezkinn Cave is also electrically lit. The Royal Arch Cave has no lighting so torches are carried by each person as you enter for your horizontal caving adventure. The Chillagoe Caves area is rich with the history of the Aboriginal people who used to visit and inhabit this area and their story telling rock art paintings. It's also a historical mining site where they used to smelter copper, silver, lead and gold at the turn of the 20th century.

Mt Uncle Distillery

Once the Chillagoe Caves tour is over its time to board your Billy Tea overland vehicle and head back to the coast of Cairns but not before you drop in and visit the Mt Uncle Distillery for a choice of tea, coffee or scones or if you are feeling the sundowner drink feeling coming on then you can go on a tasting tour of their premium home grown and produced liqueurs and spirits (at your own cost) and you can even add some liqueur chocolates to the mix. Mt Uncle Distillery is surrounded by Bananas, Avocado's and Macadamia nut trees in beautifully landscaped gardens and in the Bridges Café you can wander around and view the local artwork and other little bits and pieces on display. If you are up for an exotic cocktail they can mix up a mean Kiwi Caprioska from their own pure triple pot distilled vodka. Make sure you visit the cellar door and take some of these Cairns produced goodies home for family and friends to share with you of course. Mt Uncle Distillery is the perfect place for your last stop on the way home from the Chillagoe Caves to Cairns.

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Custom Built Four Wheel Drives

All Billy Tea Safaris vehicles are custom built 4WD vehicles designed to traverser rugged country, rock valleys and muddy streams whilst providing customers with comfortable seating in a spacious air conditioned environment.

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