Port Douglas to Cape Tribulation drive: Distance & best stops

Ice cream and tea in the Daintree

There are also a few food producers worth a visit. A few hardy souls have tried to make a business work in the Daintree. These include the Floravilla Ice Cream Factory, which has billowing tropical garden and an impressive roster of 26 biodynamic ice cream flavours. Some of these are suitably tropical – like mango and lime. Others are more unusual, such as the iron bark honey and almond, or sweet potato and ginger options. Weirdest of the lot is the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ flavour, which contains lemon myrtle, coconut, ginger, vanilla, kale and spirulina.

Further up is Daintree Tea. The rainforest abruptly stops, and gives way to a neatly-planted tea plantation. Some old tea-making machinery is outside, including driers, extractors and the rotovanes that crush leaves between paddles. An honesty box system operates for anyone wishing to buy some of the tea that’s proudly 100% Australian-owned, processed and packaged – and has been since 1978.

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