Volunteers from Austrop - a local conservation organisation - run the Bat House nursery for fruit bats. Besides giving visitors the opportunity to meet a flying fox, the Bat House provides environmental and tourist information on the region. During the evenings, the house serves as a meeting place and as a small lecture theatre.

Prior to the Bat House being built in 1991, the land around it had been cleared for grazing and orchard farming by previous owners. An intensive revegetation and replanting effort was put in place and the land has vastly recovered.

The Mount Sorrow ridge trail provides opportunities for fit and experienced bushwalkers to take in spectacular views from an elevation of 680m. The trail starts in a lowland rainforest valley, full of trees with large buttress roots and a canopy woven with large woody vines. As the ridge ascends, feather-leafed palms become more common.

On the ridge, the vegetation is dominated by acacias (wattles). The wind-sheared forest canopy becomes lower and more open towards the mountain summit. From the lookout, you can watch spangled drongos and small flocks of topknot pigeons in the air, while a variety of butterflies drift around on the wind. On a clear day, the beautiful Daintree coastline can be seen stretching southwards to Snapper Island and beyond...nothing sorrowful about that!