Some travellers to Cape Tribulation may find themselves going in the wrong direction for hours after an error on a popular navigation app suggests taking a route that is both unsuitable in some places for 2WD vehicles, and is twice as long as the usual road.

Currently, if an Apple Maps user inputs directions from Port Douglas to Cape Tribulation, they are given the inland route. 

This path guides them the long way along the Mulligan Highway all the way to Wujal Wujal before bringing them through the Bloomfield track, which is not necessarily suitable for smaller vehicles.

Most other GPS services have corrected this error, but Apple Maps has shown this as the most suitable road to take for more than a year now.

This Mulligan Highway route takes over four hours, while the path across the Daintree Ferry is a considerably shorter option for travellers looking to explore Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest, which usually takes just under two hours in comparison.