Saturday 26 September: Cairns to Cape Tribulation - Exploring Daintree by 4x4
Today, in what turned out to be a very busy day, we continued exploring the Daintree rainforest with visits to Hartley Crocodile Adventures, The Wildlife Habitat and Mossman Gorge. We camped at an even more basic campsite at Noah's Beach!
Golden Nugget: Renting a car? Take out your own rental excess insurance
All rental cars are insured! However, this insurance can have a very large excess (especially in OZ & NZ). The rental car company will offer you a daily rate to eliminate the excess, but it is very expensive. You don't need to take this - you can take out your own excess cover with a separate company. For our Australian rental we are using RentalCover.com because they cover the 4x4 whilst on unsealed roads. For New Zealand, however, we need to use Questor (which is more expensive) since in NZ we don't have a 4x4 and RentalCover will not cover our vehicle on unsealed roads (and note that 33,000km [35%] of the public road network in NZ is on unsealed roads).
ps. just a little heads up for anyone who is considering icarhireinsurance.com: their normal cover is up to £6,000 excess (which is good) but if you pay extra to upgrade your cover to motorhome cover then the cover goes down to £2,000 (max £1,000 single incident)!