Cassowary Coast

SOUTH MISSION BEACH a lovely beach with views across to Dunk Island, another island just off here is the elite Bedarra Island, you will need a very large bank account to enjoy a stay there. At the caravan park where we are, are hundreds of white lipped frogs that make a real racket in the evenings. 

TULLY holds the title as one of the wettest towns in Australia with an average rainfall of 4 metres a year. The Golden Gumboot is 7.9 metres high which was the rainfall recorded in 1950.

CASSOWARY with chicks, alas we did not see them on our rainforest walk today, these were models outside the information centre. The males have the job of raising the chicks and they don’t get their black plumage until about 9 months old.

PAUL PHONING HOME checking up on relations to see how they got on after the 7.1 on the Richter scale earthquake in Christchurch, all was well thank goodness.