From the Daintree we went to Girringun National Park. On the way, we drove through about 5 km of unattended forest fire on both sides of the A1 Highway. The fire smelled of eucalyptus and cinnamon. Apparently, the rain forest will expand 125 feet a year so they let it burn to encourage the scrub forest which except in the park, appears to have been cut down to grow sugarcane. We arrived late, traveling 37+ kilometers without seeing another vehicle (there were only 2 other vehicles in the park that night). I killed thousands of bugs on the windshield and nearly an equal number of cane toads under the van wheels. Cane toads are poisonous and invasive so no karma points subtracted. We also had to stop at least three times to get cattle to move off the roadway. I'm pretty sure if I'd needed to hit the brakes hard, we may have skidded uncontrollably on a combination of toad goo and cow poo. The road got extremely narrow and steep and so winding, I was navigating corners by looking out the side windows. It reminded me of the Thailand zip line excursion.
We woke to Kookaburra (I don't know how I know that but I do) and visited the top and bottom of Wallaman Falls (nearly 1,000 vertical).
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