On the fourth day of our Australia vacation my parents and I drove north out of Port Douglas to visit Mossman Gorge, and if we had time, the Daintree rainforest. While Mossman was simply outstanding, it easily took up most of the day and we didn't have time to delve too far past the Daintree.

A babbling brook feeding into the Mossman River.

Everything at the appropriately named Mossman Gorge rainforest is moist and...

This place is a mycologist's dream for field research... if this is fungi.

Fuzzy trees.

The Australian brushturkey feeds upon insects, as well as seeds and fallen...

Australian brushturkey vs. Louis Vuitton

The Mossman River water is crystal clear aside from all the fish.

The sandy banks of the river invite visitors in for a swim.

Mom and Dad at Mossman River. Has anyone noticed my blatant use of 'rule of...

These are the roots they use in horror movie forests to trip up fleeing...

All of Japan's rivers would probably look like this if they weren't concreted...

Crossing the super-reinforced not-at-all-scary suspension bridge.

Mossman's GORGEous water. See what I did there? :)

Greeeeeeen.

Every plant in the forest seems to have at least one other plant growing on it.

Mossman rainforest tree canopy

A forest straight out of one of Miyazaki Hayao's films... all light and shadow...

Fuzzy boulders!

Mom, Dad and I standing next to awesome

Working our way up the Mossman River

Mushrooms mushrooms everywhere, and probably all of them poisonous.

A good wood stain's got nothin' on one of these fungi. Look at the rings!

Dozens of tiny bracken growing on the side of a massive tree.

These trees have got some REALLY cool roots. Some of them extend for tens of meters in all directions, running along the ground and connecting to other...

No extra lighting was used in the photographing of these mushrooms.

Too much bokeh? Nah, you can never have too much bokeh.

Another beautiful forest scene. Mom joked that she'd show her interior decorator and landscape people photos from the trip asking them to 'make it like this'. At...

I spent the whole day expecting one of these tree roots to turn into a snake!

A tiny mushroom colony, obviously CG. One of my favorite pics. Oh, and KAWAII!!!

More awesome root trees. I think these trees may all be connected, and therefore...

One more fuzzy boulder and log

We stop at a lookout point on the way north toward the Daintree rainforest.

I chased a butterfly for close to 10 minutes trying to get a photo, then this...

One more entry on the 'list of things to not eat in a rainforest'

Palmy wallpaper

This is a 'word for plant growing on another plant, but not in a parasitic type...

The Dupriest family, only moments after narrowly escaping the ravenous Cassowary...

If confronted by a Cassowary, do not run. It is pointless. Nothing can help you...

The brackish waters of the Daintree River

The daintree ferry is the only means of crossing the Daintree River here.