Cape Tribulation, North Queensland, Australia
Location of Cape Tribulation We visited Cape Tribulation in the month of June, 2012 to escape one of those dark cold winters of Melbourne. Cape Tribulation is located in far north Queensland within the Daintree National Park which is a world heritage wet tropics forest (documented in Wikipedia) and shown here in the map. We had been in that area before, probably in 2002. The sheer primitive beauty of the place hypnotized us and we have been since planning to go there. The opportunities came when in 2011 newspapers reported that an all-wheels road was finally built through the Daintree National Park which led to Cape Tribulation. Captain Cook's Endeavor, from BBC images The name Cape Tribulation was coined by Captain Cook as his famous ship Endeavor got scraped by the coral reefs in that area on his way back from New Zeeland (as it was named at that time or New Holland). He was the second European after Abel Tasman to visit the Islands and the first European to land in so called Ter