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ABIU
BLACK SAPOTE
BREADFRUIT
CANISTEL
CARAMBOLA
CHEMPADEK
DAVIDSON PLUM
DURIAN
FIJIAN LONGAN
GIANT GRANADILLA
GOLDEN PASSIONFRUIT
GRUMICHAMA
ICE-CREAM BEAN
JABOTICABA
JAKFRUIT
LIME
LYCHEE
MALAY ROSEAPPLE
MAMEY SAPOTE
MANGOSTEEN
MAPRANG
MARANG
MATISIA
MIRACLE FRUIT
PAPAYA
PUMMELO
RAMBAI
RAMBUTAN
ROLLINIA
SALAK
SANTOL
SAPODILLA
SOURSOP
STAR APPLE
SWEETSOP
WAX JAMBU
WHITE SAPOTE
YELLOW MANGOSTEEN

Exotic Tropical Fruit Tasting

Come and join us at 2 pm -

OPEN 3 days per week until June (Sunday, Tuesday,Thursday)

Every Day June - October

$25 an adult, $12.50 child (6-14), Family Pass $70 (2 adults and 2 children)

Book online for an ONLINE DISCOUNT

We offer you an amazing collection of ten exotic tropical fruit to taste. Click here to watch the video of Digby introducing the Jakfruit, a really spectacular fruit, to fruit tasters.

Enjoy spending time with local exotic fruit enthusiasts who will guide you through the menu and entertain you with stories about the fruit while you eat them.

Learn about the fruit
You will learn how to prepare the fruit, what parts to eat and how to eat them. Some of these exotic tropical fruit are starting to appear in markets - but many will never appear in the capital cities, as they are too fragile. They simply have to be sampled where they are grown, fresh from the tree.

Tempt your tastebuds
Exotic tropical fruit comes in all shapes and sizes - some are hairy, others have lumps and bumps or sharp spikes. Often the most unusual fruit turns out to be  the most delicious. Tempt your taste buds with new and unusual flavours such as the chocolate pudding fruit and fruit that tastes like lemon meringue pie and creme caramel.

What's on the tasting today?
Watch the video below as Digby explains the fruit on the tasting for a session in late April

 

 

Opening a Jakfruit - these trees grow well at Cape Tribulation Tasters in the Gazebo
Opening a Jakfruit
Tasters tucking in
Digby with a Pommelo

 

Walk through our orchard
Our exotic tropical fruit orchard is planted with more than 2000 fruit trees from the Amazon, Borneo and the Caribbean, and has over 100 different species. Learn how we use permaculture principles.

TO BUY A TICKET FOR THE FRUIT TASTING

If you are coming up to Cape Tribulation for the day, it is safer to book the night before to ensure that you get a place.

Book Online - Go through to our live secure server and receive the ONLINE DISCOUNT - $2 off each ticket purchased.

Telephone - We can take credit card bookings over the phone (07 4098 0057)

Book at Cape Trib - You can buy a ticket at your accommodation house in Cape Tribulation, or one of the booking offices in the area such as the pharmacy or the shop, or come directly to the farm.

Book at Daintree Village - You can buy a ticket from Daintree Connections Booking Office in the main street.

Book at Port Douglas Information Centre

Book at the tour desk of your Port Douglas Accommodation

During June-July-August-September we can be booked out by lunchtime, so do not rely on just turning up at 2pm unbooked and expect to join the fruit tasting. There are only 30 spaces and we often have to turn many people away.

We finish at about 3.45pm and if you are heading back to Port Douglas, you should allow an hour and a half to drive this distance.

If you wish to combine the fruit tasting with a Jungle Surfing Canopy Tour, you can arrange to leave your car at the farm, and be picked up from our front gate at 3.30 for the tour.


TRAVELLING TO CAPE TRIB FOR THE TASTING

Hire Car
The driving time from Port Douglas direct to Cape Trib is 90 minutes, and from Cairns it is 2 hours and 15 minutes. This time does not include stops. Depart early in the day and enjoy exploring the Cape Trib area.

 

It depends on the season but there are are always 10 exotic tropical fruit, from around the world. Here are some of the main ones:

Soursop
Black Sapote
Rollinia
Abiu
West Indian Lime
Breadfruit
Carambola
Jakfruit
Jaboticaba
Sapodilla
Mangosteen
Salak
Pommelo

 

Book the tasting online with our secure server, and receive a DISCOUNT - $2 OFF EACH TICKET

Click here to make a booking

Slide shows and videos about tasting fruit:

Tasting a Soursop

Tasting a Jakfruit

How to eat a Santol

COMMENTS AND STORIES FROM TASTERS
Making peace with vegetarians - a vist to Cape Trib's Fruit Farm- May 13, 2009 wanderingjustin.com - "I first heard about the Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm in Darwin. Though the tiny farm is thousands of miles away in a tiny Queensland outpost, travelers were abuzz about it.
Cape Tribulation, a tropical paradise - an account of the tasting from Meg and Jeff who stayed at Cape Trib for 2 weeks and learned a lot about fruit
I want to see it all A hilarious account of Anthony and Ali on their fruit tasting
Bibliophilia - Exotic Fruit Tasting story from Meliors
Rob.Faludi.com Here is a link from a fruit taster who has taken a whole series of photos on the fruit tasting - a great story.
Simon Rowe - 2006 Here is another article from someone who has been to cape trib and done the tasting. Read this for an independent viewpoint.
Jestertravel - another story by Chris and Angele Jester
Amy's Round the World Journal
Matusiak Webblog - Cape Trib - Lose Yourself
Observations from Debbie@Sea - Debbie was a wwoofa on our farm (willing worker on organic farm - Read more about wwoofing on our farm.

PLANNING A DAY TRIP TO CAPE TRIBULATION

Suggested Itinerary

Depart Cairns 7.30am

Arrive Cape Trib 9.15am

Go Jungle Surfing 9.45am

Lunch at Whet 12.00

Fruit Tasting 2.00pm

Cape Trib Beach 4.00pm

Depart Cape Trib 5.00pm

Arrive Cairns 7.30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cape Tribulation Bed and Breakfast accommodation on an exotic tropical fruit orchard in the heart of the Daintree Rainforest
Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm, Lot 5 Nicole Drive, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, 4873, Australia - Tel: 0740 980057 - Fax: 0740 980067
digby@capetrib.com.au.

Last updated February 7, 2013