Departing the Cairns Reef Terminal and glides across Trinity Inlet, dotted by yachts, and up Hills Creek to where the salty water meets freshwater flowing off the surrounding mountains. Welcome to an Indigenous Protected Area, the largest reserve of its kind in the world. The rainforest-clad mountains of Mandingalbay Yidinji lands is a bush supermarket and pharmacy abundant of food and medicinal plants used for sustenance and healing, which include edible flowers, sweet fruit and native herbs. The air is alive with a chorus of birds all year round, and in the winter months, a cloud of butterfly's filter the air with their wings as your guide takes you on a short trek at the base of Grey Peaks National Park.