Roaring Meg Valley.

The Noah Creek Catchment (foreground) and the Roaring Meg Creek Catchment (background) drain a very wet upland area created by the Thornton Range and McDowall Range. From Thornton Peak, Mount Pieter Botte can be seen in the background to the right, with Mt Finnegan on the horizon to the left.

Adeline Falls - Windsor Tablelands

Taken from a Helicopter, Adeline Falls flows north off the Windsor Tablelands into the Daintree River between the Carbine and Windsor Tablelands which is still absolute wilderness. Unbelievably, this is only approximately 60% of the actual falls which are, in fact, a series of falls dropping over 220m.

Mt Bulbun South from Thornton Peak

In the coffee coloured sunsets of mid winter, views out to the north west highlight some fascinating areas. Mount Bulbun South is a very important place for the Yalanji mob and, thankfully, it is still a relatively pristine landscape. Thornton Peak soars above a huge wilderness area to the south west and through to the north west, where lies an enormous tract of land that remains relatively untouched by colonisation.

Upper Daintree River.

Daintree National Park stretches from Mossman Gorge to Bloomfield River. About 17000 ha of land between Daintree River and Cape Tribulation is protected as Daintree National Park. It is bordered on the western side by an extensive timber reserve which stretches over Thornton Range and beyond.

Noah Creek

The Noah Creek area is named because it harbours plants that have avoided the need to evolve to stay relevant in their habitat. So stable has the environment been in this part of the Wet Tropics that it has been an 'Ark' for its passengers. More primitive flowering plants occur here than anywhere else in the world. Although not that far away from civilisation, it is protected by its rugged and very wet environment.

Hidden Giants - Greater Daintree

In the vast upland landscape between Mt Molloy and the Daintree Valley, many very large trees are still growing, having only to contend with time and cyclones. The Daintree area is one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world and contains the oldest intact tropical lowland rainforest in the world. Some of the trees found here are thought to be more than 3,000 years old.

Upper Daintree River Valley

Taken from a helicopter, the extent of the Greater Daintree Wilderness can be seen. In the distance are the Carbine and Windsor Tablelands, with a mosaic of Rainforest and eucalyptus woodlands in between. This wilderness was first penetrated by Europeans like Christie Palmerston in the 1870's. The low saddle in the middle of the background is where he entered the Daintree River Valley.

Dagmar Range from The Pinnacle

The forest in the mid ground past the rock is Daintree National Park, the Dagmar Range Section. This is an unusual large low tableland area, averaging an altitude of 250 metres. It is comprised of interesting community mixes of closed Acacia and Eucalyptus woodland, interspersed throughout with moist lowland mesophyll vine forest.

Upper Daintree River

In 1873, explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple named the river in honour of his old boss, Richard Daintree, who was once government geologist for north Queensland. The Daintree River is 120km long.

Mt Sorrow to the Coral Sea

Noah Creek valley