Daintree Tours is an independent planning guide on the owned domain daintreetours.com.au. It rebuilds the historic tour, day-trip, attraction and region map captured by the Wayback Machine (especially June 2006) as long-form visitor pages. The host is Netlify. The editorial inbox is [email protected].
We preserve ranking-style paths with 301 aliases so old .htm tour, lodge and rafting URLs still resolve. We cite Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Parks Australia for federal park context, UNESCO, the Wet Tropics Management Authority, Mossman Gorge Centre, GBRMPA and Douglas Shire Council. We do not sell tickets. We do not invent live prices, departure times, operator rankings or “best tour” claims.
What this site is for
Visitors use it to answer a short list of planning questions: can you day-trip the Daintree from Cairns, do you need a guided tour or a hire car, how the cable ferry works, what Mossman Gorge and Cape Tribulation actually include, and how to behave around cassowaries and estuarine crocodiles. Each hub is written so the first screen is useful and the rest is depth — not a collage of every Cairns add-on on one invoice.
The forest is Eastern Kuku Yalanji country, jointly managed as Daintree National Park (CYPAL) with the Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation. That is not a footer decoration. It is why some walks are guided, why some creeks are closed, and why feeding a cassowary is not a cute story.
What this site is not
It is not a booking engine. It is not an official park or council channel. It is not affiliated with Queensland Parks, the Wet Tropics Management Authority, Douglas Shire Council, Mossman Gorge Centre, UNESCO, or any lodge or boat named on a historic URL unless a page says so explicitly. Trademarks remain with their owners. The fleet copyright and trademark disclaimer is on every public page.
Historic 2014 WordPress copy — private Gold Coast parties, “Water, Fire & Air” charters, Christmas itinerary proposals — is not republished. Those paths 301 into the itinerary hub so leftover links do not 404.
How to use it
Start at the day-trip or tours hub if you have one daylight window. Use the itinerary hub if you have a night or a long weekend. Use getting-there for the highway and ferry. Use the FAQ when you want the first sentence only. Edit posts and this page in Keystatic at /keystatic/ — drafts do not appear in the sitemap.
Confirm opening hours, ferry fares, park alerts, swimming safety and bookings with the official operator or agency before you travel. Content here is general information, not travel, safety or cultural advice.
Editorial rules we actually keep
Australian Daintree and Tropical North Queensland tourism only. No invented tour prices. No operator league tables. No “best Daintree tour” headline. When a historic page named a lodge, we keep the alias and tell you to verify the current operator. When a historic page named a river as if it were raftable, we correct the geography.
Facts come from public sources: Queensland Parks for Daintree National Park (CYPAL), Parks Australia for federal park context, the Wet Tropics Management Authority, the UNESCO 1988 listing, Mossman Gorge Centre, Douglas Shire Council, GBRMPA for reef-day rules, and Tropical North Queensland’s regional visitor site. If those sources disagree with a 2006 brochure, the live source wins.
Posts are Markdoc in Keystatic. Hubs are long-form pages with a single h1, trailing-slash canonicals, and JSON-LD that does not fight (Organization and WebSite on every page; FAQ, breadcrumbs, HowTo or BlogPosting where they belong). llms.txt summarises the same map for machines. The sitemap lists published URLs only.
If you are a returning visitor who remembers a 2006 package price, a Gold Coast fax number, or a Foaming Fury filename: those were shopfront artefacts. The geography they pointed at is still here. The prices are not. Use the hubs, then use the official sites. That is the whole method.
The domain is owned. We do not invent extra exact-match hostnames. If you spotted an error, use the contact page.