News from Coquette Point

26/05/2012

 
Hello from cold and very wet Coquette Point,

The weather systems combined to bring heavy rain to the Wet Tropics on Thursday night. Around 350 mm fell in the Innisfail, Mossman and Cairns’ hinterlands overnight and on Friday all the rivers ran red to the Coral Sea Lagoon.  A low over Victoria has pushed cold air up along the Queensland coast and it was winter woollies all day to-day with the temperature not getting over 18 - freezing for FNQ.

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News from Coquette Point

01/04/2012

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Hello from Coquette Point,

The Feast of the Senses festival was held last Sunday and amazingly the rain held off and the sun shone brightly until 3pm and then the skies opened. Kirsty Densmore, the event manager talked me into a breadfruit cooking demonstration. I did not know until I saw this photo that celebrity chef Peter Russell-Clark was looking over my shoulder as I cooked.
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News from Coquette Point (Mar 17)

01/04/2012

 
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Female Indian Koel
Hello from Coquette Point,

It is with a deep sense of loss that we learnt today that Margaret Whitlam completed her journey on planet Earth.

When Margaret visited Coquette Point in 1975, as guest of honour at a 300 strong gathering of north Queensland women, she expressed her deep concern for the rainforest and the animals that belonged to it.       
She jokingly said to me “ If I lived here I would blow up the bridge and live in solitude in the rainforest”.  Thank you Margaret your life was an example to us all: you made a difference.

The Indian Koels found their voice this week and early every morning the male and female have been ‘singing the rain’ in long wurra-wurra calls that are held for at least ten seconds and finish in mounting shrills.
 

News from Coquette Point

31/01/2012

 
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Hello from Coquette Point,

The monsoon brought violent storms and heavy rain to the Cassowary Coast this week.


The Johnstone River turned brown as it carried the priceless topsoil that was contained in run-off from farms out into the Coral Sea.