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News from Coquette Point

31/7/2011

 
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Hi all, 

I went into the CCRC planning office on Wednesday I had heard my next door neighbour Rick Gore had put in a rezoning application. The Town Planner confirmed that an application had been received for rezoning of portion 27V to ‘Tourist Facility’. The application outlined a ‘Grey Nomad’ Caravan Park Rest Area. The application was for minimal infrastructure as the idea is that caravans would travel over the Moresby Range down two steep hills to spend a rest night!!!!!!!!!


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Where is Bernie?

31/7/2011

 
Click to enlargeCairns Post July 28
Thursday's Cairns Post ran a story about a young Bingil Bay Cassowary that was hit by a car early in the morning Friday 22 July.
 
The bird is believed to have been very badly injured as it was struck hard by the vehicle and was seen fleeing awkwardly toward the rainforest gully.  It hasn't been seen since despite a search of the creek area by a crew of Queensland Parks and Wildlife (QPWS) rangers.  

The approximately 18 month old bird is known in the neighbourhbood as 'Bernie' and  was attempting to cross the Bingil Bay Road at a known Cassowary crossing area just north of a Council reserve at the junction of two permanent running creeks.


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News from Coquette Point

30/7/2011

 
Libby and children ride to Coquette Point
23 July 2011
Hi all,
A number of tourists visited the nursery this week, one couple from Perth said they had come for two days and had stayed two weeks.  Amazingly, two groups of tourists visited the nursery on bicycles! The caravan park had told them it was rolling hills out to Coquette Point. My daughter Libby got the fitness bug and bicycled out with the children, they walked up the hills on their return.


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The lot 66 story

18/7/2011

 
On Friday 15th July it was publically announced that the application to subdivide 1 lot into 15 lots on Lot 66 was withdrawn.  The final outcome of the 24.4 hectare (60 acre) block of land in the heart of Mission Beach which has been the subject of a high profile campaign, is still uncertain.
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The lot was bought at Auction in 2007 at the height of an economic upturn and a development application for a 40 lot sudivision was lodged ahead of the FNQ 2031 Regional Plan. 

In the development of the new state Plan, the importance of the fully covered remnant vegetation block connecting the World Heritage area to a large coastal lowland reserve was recognised and removed from the urban footprint.


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A near tragedy, and an interesting find

18/7/2011

 
by  ANNE WILKINSON.
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This has been a week of questions and, hopefully, an averted tragedy.

First, a truly resounding crash on the kitchen window revealed a young yellow-spotted honeyeater lying on the lawn outside.

At first we thought it was dead, but it moved its head and, just like a person recovering from a collision, while it was obviously dazed and very shaken, it gradually regained consciousness.


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News from Coquette Point

17/7/2011

 
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Hello from the mouth of the Johnstone River,
 
For the last week the afternoon sky has been dotted with the fluttering wings of the Zodiac Moth. This is the time of year when the moth population of the Mt Annie National Park journey across the rainforest, the mangrove forest the river fly up over the range and land in the rainforest of the Moresby Range National Park.


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News from Coquette Point

10/7/2011

 
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Hello again,

The fiery sunrises early this week portend of wet and windy weather to come.   This afternoon the clouds were again building.  

Mosquitoes and ants were active for the first time in a month.



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News from Coquette Point

3/7/2011

 
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Hi All,

What a wet and windy week! It has eased a little to-day and a few boats took advantage and left the river this morning , on the high tide, for a run north.

Martin has his boat ‘Sig’ on the slip and is trying to carry out a refit, not easy in the constant rain and drizzle. Meanwhile my front yard looks like a boat yard.


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