The crew at Crocodile Express cafe and tours is preparing for a possible third Daintree River flood in as many weeks, plus 120km/h winds, as Tropical Cyclone Narelle bears down on the coast near Coen - but they are taking it all in their stride.

Emmagen Creek at Cape Tribulation is already impassable, with more than 100mm of rain recorded in the gauge this morning, and a flood warning has been issued for the Daintree River.

Owner Dean Clapp, however, says most of the Croc Express boats are up out of the water, except for the one currently ferrying passengers across the river after the Daintree ferry broke down in the first flood a fortnight ago.

“Not much we can do, the water comes up,” Mr Clapp said.

“The other day, in 12 hours, I had 500mm of rain in here.

“When you get that much bloody rainfall in the hills here, the water’s going to come up very fast and very high.

“Sometimes you’re just in the lap of the gods, you can’t just prepare for everything.”

He is also facing predicted 120km/h winds expected tonight and tomorrow.

“We’ll certainly get some of it, so will Cairns, so will Port Douglas.”

“Wind’s gotta be part of it, yeah, mainly because most of us have got fairly big trees around our houses and stuff.

“And with the ground being so wet, you get 100 or 120km/h winds, the trees are just gonna be gone, it doesn’t matter where you are.

“I don’t know, we just prepare for it and do the best we can.”

The shop has generators in case the power goes out - across the past couple of weeks it has been out for about four days - but the biggest long-term concern is if a bridge or road gets washed away, he said.

“And that could happen.”

“If you wanna live here you’ve got to accept it.”

Marketing manager Vincent O’Flaherty said it was just him and another local in the Daintree Village Hotel on a Thursday night two weeks ago when the river rose up, eventually washing away a wharf, putting the ferry out of action, and washing one of their croc boats out to a Cairns reef.