The area is best explored on foot – for the simple pleasure of walking through the forest with the sea breaking on a beach not five minutes distant. A path runs out to the cape, where you may see brilliantly coloured pittas (small, tailless birds with a buff chest, green back and black and rust heads) bouncing around in the leaf litter, or even a crocodile sunning itself on the beach.
One way to penetrate the undergrowth away from the paths is to follow small creeks: Emmagen, about 6km north, runs halfway up Mount Sorrow and is recommended for its safe swimming holes.
Persistence and luck may spot a tree kangaroo, given away during the day by its long tail hanging down like a vine while the animal slouches in the tree tops, asleep. See also Daintree NP.
