Tours 6A & 6B: Mossman Gorge, Daintree Rainforest + Aboriginal Beach Day Tour (with the option to try the traditional fishing)

Mossman Gorge, Daintree Rainforest + Aboriginal Beach and Fishing Tour 

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• Aboriginal Cultural Fishing Tour - Learn to throw a spear before taking a guided walk  along the beach and through the Mudflats on this traditional cultural beach day walking tour. The guides will educate you on how the evolution of the lands, whilst they hunt for fish and crabs to collect and take back to their family.

• Swim in refreshing clear crystal creek waters of Mossman Gorge. 

• 'Welcome to Country' Smoking Ceremony - local indigenous guides, natural body paint demonstration & indigenous plant talk. 

• Daintree Rainforest - An easy 45 min walk through the Daintree Rainforest inside Mossman Gorge, your satour takes visitors on a guided walk through the Daintree Rainforest and over meandering cool rainforest streams. 

• Captain Cook Hwy – one of the most beautiful scenic coastal roads in the world.

• A delicious morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea.

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We start the day with a scenic coastal drive through some of the most inspiring scenery in the world, the winding road travels through the tropical rainforest and along secluded beaches.

Our first tour is with the local indigenous tribe on a coastal beach walk experience, you will be introduced to the traditional fishing activity of spear throwing and handling. Practice your aim and shoot before embarking on a stroll (spear in hand) along the beach, through the mangroves and mudflats observing cultural medicine and food plants, whilst spotting the array of sea life beneath the water and hiding between the mangroves ! Enjoy a Homemade Damper on the Beach at the end of the tour.

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Next, we head inland, nestled in the World Heritage Listed Daintree Rainforest, Mossman Gorge contains the oldest, continuously surviving tropical rainforest on earth. 

6A Option:

Your visit to the Daintree Rainforest on Tour 6A starts with the famous Dreamtime Walk.  Your Dreamtime Walk begins with a traditional ‘smoking’ ceremony to cleanse and ward off bad spirits. Next, your guide will lead you on a meandering stroll through stunning, lush rainforest, observing traditional huts or humpies along the way. Your experienced interpretive Indigenous guide demonstrates traditional plant use, identifies bush food sources, and provides an enchanting narrative of the rainforest and their special relationship with this unique tropical environment. Discover traditions like making bush soaps and ochre painting. At the end of the tour, enjoy traditional bush tea and damper – the perfect treat after your journey. Enjoy free time to swim in the crystal-clear waters of Mossman Gorge, surrounded by large granite boulders, these rocks contain a percentage of quartz, these waters are known to be healing to your body, mind and soul.

6B Option:

Your visit to the Daintree Rainforest on Tour 6B starts with a traditional 'smoking’ ceremony to cleanse and ward off bad spirits, you will discover traditions like making bush soaps and ochre painting, enjoy a guided walk through the rainforest with your Sacred Owl Tour Guide, before enjoying free time to swim in the crystal-clear waters of Mossman Gorge, surrounded by large granite boulders, these rocks contain a percentage of quartz, these waters are known to be healing to your body, mind and soul.

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Days of Operation

This tour operates 7 days per week with transfers from Cairns, Northern Beaches and Port Douglas.  

This tour does not operate on public holidays.  

What's Included 

• Return Transfers from Cairns, Palm Cove and Port Douglas.

• Experienced Aboriginal Guides.

• Traditional Aboriginal Fishing & Beach Tour - Daintree 

• Smoking Ceremony, Traditional Bush Soap and Body Paint demonstration.

• A Delicious Lunch, Morning Tea and Afternoon Tea.

Please Note: This tour may operate in reverse due to tide times at the beach.

Fitness Requirements  

This experience calls for a medium level of fitness as guests will be walking across the soft sand along the beach, through mudflats and wading through coastal waters up to knee height. 

Additional Information

Pickup from 

• 7:30am Cairns 

• 8.00am Northern Beaches 

• 8.30am Port Douglas 

Return from 

• 4.30pm Port Douglas 

• 5.00pm Northern Beaches 

• 5:30pm at Cairns 

What to Bring: 

• Please do not wear pants – shorts only, as you will be walking through the water, at knee height level  

• Beach / Reef Shoes – If you’re not comfortable walking in bare feet through the mudflats, on the sand or through the water 

• Insect repellent 

• Water bottle 

• Hat / Sunscreen 

• Umbrella/raincoat (in wet weather) 

Rates & Prices  

• Child 5-15 years inclusive 

• Adult – 16 -100 years inclusive 

• Family = 2A + 2C 

• Rates are GST inclusive and in Australian Dollars 

• This tour is not recommended for children under 4 years old.