Ed, Julie and I went on the Dreamtime Walk of the gorge. This was a very different experience to my other visits. The indigenous people of this area are the Kuku Yalanji. Our guide Jarred has lived in this area his entire life. First we had a smoking ceremony to welcome us to country. Jarred put paperbark onto the fire to produce smoke and we all had to walk around it in a circle making sure that the smoke hit all of our bodies to enable us to walk as one in the rainforest.

We then set off into the rainforest and were told stories that have been handed down generation to generation by the Yalanji people. Demonstrations of leaves that produce soap, how they use different body paints for each tribe, how to send signals in the rainforest using a cedar buttress, how they build their shelters from lawyer cane. The Yalanji people would move inland to the drier areas during the wet season as you could not live in the gorge in the wet season. It really was a good tour and they finished it off by giving us locally grown Daintree tea and some damper. The damper was probably the heaviest I have ever had and sat like a brick in my stomach for at least three hours. Apart from that it was a great tour.