| | Local Stories from around the Cassowary Coast are now being posted on a new website called Cassowary Coast Alliance (CCA). CCA is a collaborative hub for entities and individuals who are actively seeking good quality and long term public interest outcomes for the world heritage listed Cassowary Coast in Far North Queensland. Mission Beach Cassowaries will be adjusted to be more focused on the Cassowary Identification project in the coming months. Read the latest news here |
 At 5.30am on Wednesday I walked out of my mangrove hideaway and went up the range to join a gathering crowd for the viewing. | Hello from sunny Coquette Point, The suspense leading up to the solar eclipse on the 14/11/12 could have been written by Alfred Hitchcock. Dark clouds gathered on the days before the event and the weather gurus held very little hope that we, on the far northern coast, would have clear skies to see the sun. Thousands left the coast and travelled hundreds of miles inland to find clear skies. However, that was no excuse for us to miss out on a neighbourhood get together and breakfast-party. read more |
WATCH OUT: Russell Constable took this picture of a little tern’s nest and eggs on Cowley Beach. Little tern pairs make their nest scrapes in the sand quite close to each other, often in dunes or just above the tideline.
| WILDWATCH: by ANNE WILKINSON
I was delighted when I walked into Tully library the other day to find an excellent flyer displayed near the door for anyone to pick up.
Called “Protecting the little terns of the Cassowary Coast” it has been produced jointly by CCRC, the Federal Government, the Queensland Government and Reef Guardian Council. Apart from being an interesting document in its own right, it gives a fascinating glimpse into the lives of these tiny, endangered seabirds. Reading it, one can almost smell the sea and the beach. |
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Daryl Dickson - Mungarru Lodge Sanctuary
Oct 12th 2012
It has been months – almost a year, since we have seen any mahogany gliders at Mungarru Lodge Sanctuary.
During the last 17years mahogany gliders, sugar gliders, feather tailed gliders and striped possums have been our companions in the night time treetops of the woodland remnant that is our home at Mungarru Lodge Sanctuary in the Kennedy Valley just north of Cardwell.
Our gliders and possums survived TC Yasi but unfortunately our local population do not seemed to have fared well in the aftermath of the storm.
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| | WILDWATCH: by ANNE WILKINSON
This mid-spring is a season of temperature contrasts.
The wonderfully cool early mornings are replaced with baking days. Often in the afternoon the wind springs up, drying any moisture if we were lucky enough to get a shower, and sending leaves and even branches tumbling to the ground. |
| | Hello from Coquette Point,
On Thursday the Cassowary Coast Regional Council, CCRC, approved the reconfiguration of the Metricon marina development at 65 Coquette Point Road. This 89.26ha marina development abuts Ninds Creek, on the east and fronts the Johnstone River to the north. It is part of the old Ninds Creek Wetlands and as such the soils are acid sulphate. The site was cleared 100 years ago for agricultural and cattle farming purposes.
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| | MEDIA RELEASE 07 August 2012
Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc.
Cassowary Coast Regional Council (CCRC) has made clear and strong responses to an attempt to have a new and different “Port Hinchinbrook Stage II” development proposal accepted as a mere “change” to a Development Application first lodged in 2008.
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| | Hello from Coquette Point, While Sydney is experience anticyclones and the Philippines the worst floods in living memory the weather in North Queensland has been perfect. Nights of 16 to 18 degrees and days in the mid 20’s with cloudless skies and gentle sea breezes, where else would you live? Read More |
| | Hello from sunny Coquette Point,
Well what a difference a week can make in a person’s life! Last week I was lazily soaking up the sun at Dunk Island and enjoying the ‘birthday boy’s’ celebrations.
I returned to Coquette Point and suddenly fell ill. Within a short time I was fighting for my life in Innisfail Hospital.
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| | Hello from Dunk Island, I am over here for big son Martin’s 40 birthday party: Martin has leased the old resort for the party. It is rather sad to look around and see the old resort all but deserted. It is a beautiful sunny day and sitting here looking out at Brammo Bay you could almost think that nothing had changed. The infrastructure of the resort appears sound and the charm of the plantation style design is fitting within the green surrounds. Read more |
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