Our Daintree cruises reception area also has a souvenir shop with many items for all budgets and all personalities, to remember your Daintree River Cruises experience. It is open from 9am – 5pm every day except for Christmas day and is a great way to take away a memento of your Daintree crocodile tours. We have available a range of quirky, interesting, fun and factual souvenirs of this unique part of our world.

In 1988, the Daintree River Train was launched and commissioned to join other tour boats on the Daintree River to conduct tours observing wildlife in this estuarine or river mouth environment.

Although it was engaged in regulation activities, it offered a different aspect to rival businesses. It is a long vessel of about 30 metres, with a series of drones coupled together and to appear like a train.

The idea was envisioned by an eccentric man, Alan Patterson. He and his family moved from Victoria, bought a property on the northern bank just downstream and adjacent to the ferry crossing. The vessel was built on the property with the intention of operating the business from there with a Permit to Occupy.

A second permit was developed on the south side of the river, opposite their home. That is where they met the public who had prior booking arrangements or just simply met walk in guests. Initially, the tours lasted about two hours, which included a journey towards the river mouth and then an interpretive tour of the mangroves on their property.