Rainforest trees burned by lightning in Daintree National Park, Far North Queensland, Australia (© Peter Adams/plainpicture)

【August 17 2014】Australia’s Daintree National Park sits in a region of Far North Queensland where lightning strikes are common. And with all those trees, it’s inevitable that some will be hit and burned. But Daintree is a rainforest, with showers falling almost daily. So while lightning strikes often trigger forest fires in areas where the dry season can turn a mountainside into tinder, the rain-soaked forest here in Daintree National Park has contained the damage from this strike to a small clutch of trees.Explore breathtaking Gallery from the HuluTrip homepage over the past 5 years..