For wildlife viewing is there any significance in the types of boats?
Yes. The Daintree River has many tourist boats and most are purpose built for a particular use. It is fair to say that most boats carry the same number of people that a bus or coach can carry. For instance there are seven 50 seat boats and a whole string of boats that can carry 20 or 22 passengers which is the size of large and medium sized buses. There are two boats powered by electric motor/s which are run from storage batteries that are re-charged from mains power overnight. There is another boat shaped like a narrow pencil case with revolving barstools that are just high enough to restrict the poor boat driver’s view. There is yet another that is made up of floating carriages and looks like a train. So what do we use? Our 12 seat boat’s width gives it the highest stability rating of any tourist vessel on the Daintree River. The seats are tiered, they are low and they do not move. There is no roof. In some respects it is similar to the specialist wildlife viewing boats that you can
