Run 41:00 [3] 7.0 km (5:51 / km)
The place I was staying, a few kilometres short of Cape Tribulation itself, didn't have any good running options in its own right (there's only one road, which is narrow and gets quite a bit of traffic), so instead I decided to head up to the Cape with thoughts of running up the beach north from there. That didn't quite work out - as I discovered, when the walk notes said that parts of the beach were difficult at high tide, they meant 'anything except low tide' (I was about halfway), plus the creeks flowing across the beach were up after the overnight rain - and mangrovey shorelines were something I was a bit nervous about in croc country. It would have been fitting had I been turned around by Blockade Creek (named for the 1983 protest against the building of the track north, handled with all the sensitivity you'd expect of Joh's police), but I think it was actually the one before it. Then tried heading south but ran into a creek there too, so plan C was to head up the track, turning around shortly after the gravel started, a spot with a disappointing lack of an if-you-drive-the-wrong-vehicle-past-here-you-will-die sign. (There might be one soon, because someone did indeed die on the track a few days ago after slipping off it in what was described in the local paper as an 'improvised campervan').
Again this was a pretty nondescript run as far as performance goes - similar to yesterday although there were more hills today, and a few steps.
After a morning looking around the Daintree, with no sign of beach weather I decided to do something a bit different and head up to Cooktown (the bitumen way). The country turns to dry savanna pretty quickly once you get up the range, but there are some interesting ranges off to the side of the road, including plenty of granite (always something to excite the Australian orienteer), and one range of hills largely made up of black rocks/scree around 30km out of Cooktown, which I plan to look at a bit more closely on the way back tomorrow.