Daintree Tea Company, QLD: Visit an Australian tea plantation
The Daintree Tea Company in Queensland has been operating since 1978. Visitors can see the sprawling plantation and buy 100% Australian tea using an honesty box system.
What is the Daintree Tea Company?
The Daintree Tea Company is a tea-grower based on the Cubbagudta Plantation in Diwan, near Cape Tribulation, Queensland. The plantation is surrounded by the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest and can be visited on the drive from Cairns to Cape Tribulation.
7 Cape Tribulation experiences you should book in advance
- ▶️ An attraction-packed Cape Tribulation day tour from Cairns or Port Douglas.
- ▶️ (Highly recommended ✅) Small group reef snorkelling – on the Ocean Safari Great Barrier Reef tour.
- ▶️ See the Daintree come to life – on a guided rainforest night walk.
- ▶️ Uncover jungle secrets – on a small group rainforest trekking adventure.
- ▶️ Whizz through the trees – on a thrill-a-minute zipline adventure course.
- ▶️ Saddle up, and go horse-riding along the beach.
- ▶️ Stretch those legs on a full day waterfall hike.
Tea plantations in Australia
It may come as a surprise to some that tea is grown in Australia, but there are a few plantations around the country. There are others, for example, in the Atherton Tableland and northern New South Wales.
The Daintree tea plantation, though, was set up in 1978, and is still owned and operated by the original founding family.
The Nicholas family has made a series of bold decisions in growing their tea. The plantation is pesticide-free, and the tea is 100% Australian-owned, grown and processed. It is black tea, and unblended. The aim is to create a pure, high quality tea.
5 Daintree experiences worth booking in advance
- Daintree Discovery Centre tickets.
- Hour-long Daintree River cruise.
- Mossman River drift snorkelling.
- Daintree River late afternoon cruise.
- Barramundi fishing experience.
Is the Daintree Tea Company open to visitors?
The Daintree Tea Company’s plantation isn’t open to visitors as such, but you can rock up to the farm gate and buy some tea. The whole thing works on a rather charming honesty box system, where they just trust you to put in the requisite sum of money.
You can also just admire the plantation as you drive past it on the Cape Tribulation Road.
Other attractions north of the Daintree River Ferry crossing include the Daintree Discovery Centre, Jindalba Boardwalk and Floravilla Ice Cream Factory in Cow Bay. There’s also the Daintree Ice Cream Company and Daintree Tea Company in Diwan.
Further north, the Marrdja Boardwalk near Noah Beach offers handy explanations of the rainforest and mangrove eco-systems.
Then, at Cape Tribulation, you can enjoy horse-riding tours, Myall Beach, Cape Tribulation Beach and Mason’s Swimming Hole.
Best Cape Tribulation accommodation
There are more than a dozen Cape Tribulation accommodation options. Search for the best deals here.
However, the best bets are…
- For an effectively private beach: Cape Trib Beach House.
- For backpackers after a good time: PK’s Jungle Village.
- For couple-friendly tropical bungalows: Cape Trib Farm.
- For self-catering and green credentials: Noah Creek Eco Huts.
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