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News from Coquette Point

29/4/2012

 
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Hello from Coquette Point,
This morning I woke to the sound of cassowaries honking and roaring and the sound of crashing vegetation as large birds ran through the rainforest. It was a good time to stay indoors.

Today I saw Dot, sub-adult ‘Don’ and ‘Jessie’ with  ‘Little Dad’. They were here for most of the day and when their paths crossed the dominate bird displayed aggressively. For over 10 days now I had not seen ‘Little Dad’ or ‘Jessie’ and I had thought he was already sitting on eggs. However, they are still walking together with Jessie dutifully following ‘Little Dad’s’ every move.
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‘Little Dad’ took a long drink from a bucket of water outside the vegetable garden.

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Cowley Beach

26/4/2012

 
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Cowley Beach Mandubarra Aboriginal turtle monitors guard hatching Green Sea turtles

Check out Russell Constable's video of the event  and  other videos following the threat to Cowley Beach  by the ongoing problem of vehicles driving on the beach.

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Cowley Beach

24/4/2012

 
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The ongoing destruction of Cowley Beach caused by the inaction of authorities is a sad reminder of the lack of  leadership in the CCRC regarding environmental issues.  The following is correspondence by Russell Constable and Richard Piper who have been working with the Mandubarra mob fighting for a better deal for Cowley Beach.

On April 19th Russell wrote  to the CCRC;

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News from Coquette Point

22/4/2012

 
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Hello from Coquette Point,

What a difference a week makes! Tonight the sun set in a rosy sky spreading shafts of light over a shimmering Johnstone River.

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News from Coquette Point

19/4/2012

 
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Hello from windy Coquette Point,

Cool and sunny Easter weather has morphed into wet and wild gale force winds which have lashed the coast since Thursday and more is to come. An area of low pressure, which is moving west coupled with a very large southern high has turned the normally gentle trade winds into the roaring 40’s.


The butterflies are having difficulty in managing the wind and a pale lemon form, or at least that is what I think it is,  of the Pale Triangle, graphium eurypylus, which is seldom seen in a resting mode, was easy to photograph this week.  Its cousin the green-spotted triangle seemed to cope better with the wind.

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News from Coquette Point

9/4/2012

 
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Love is in the air at Coquette Point,

Jessie the matriarch cassowary of Coquette Point is walking out with ‘Little Dad’.  Last Sunday as I was walking along the mangroves I sensed a movement in the leaves, when I looked in the dimness I saw cassowary ‘Little Dad’ sitting among the roots of an hibiscus tiliaceus.  Some three metres away I saw another cassowary standing absolutely still. I was unable to identify the bird hidden behind the dense undergrowth and I did not wish to disturb them.
I left the area but went back to check if they were still there every half to one hour making every effort not to be heard or seen.  Two hours later they were gone. Excitedly I looked for eggs but none to be found.

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Instinct or weather wise, it is all a matter of nature

7/4/2012

 
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Indian Koel juvenile
RAINBIRD: The call of the koel is a familiar sound when rain is on the way. Yvonne Cunningham photographed this juvenile koel in her nursery garden at Coquette Point just before the recent heavy rains.
WILDWATCH  by LAWRIE MARTIN

Despite many people dismissing the concept of some animals being able to predict – with some accuracy – future weather events, conversation has revealed a growing band of district residents who are starting to accept animals have an in-built barometer which rings alarm bells when dramatic meteorological changes are afoot.

Members of this expanding band claim resident insects, such as ants for example, were busily gathering and storing food with far more intensity than usual several days before Tropical Cyclone Yasi struck with all its fury on that eventful day in February last year.


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News from Coquette Point

2/4/2012

 
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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 24)

2/4/2012

 
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Hello from camera happy Coquette Point,

When sailors see Frigate birds at sea it is a sign that land is within 200 miles. However, when Frigate birds fly over the land it is time to be afraid, very afraid. Frigate birds over the land are a sign of gale force winds  about to occur and the birds stay, continually in flight, for the duration of the storm. Last Sunday a flock of 60 Greater Frigatebirds arrived and started flying in anticlockwise concentric circles over the Cassowary Coast.

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News from Coquette Point (Mar 17)

2/4/2012

 
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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.

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