Hello from sunny Coquette Point,

The week opened with ‘dial up weather’ which has remained; days reaching 23/24 and nights around 14/15; bright blue sunny skies with hardly a cloud to be seen.

Great excitement on Wednesday with the transit of Venus across the sun. Laurie and Anne visited from Cardwell and Ruth joined us for a ‘Venus’ party. We had great views of the transit through a modern welding helmet.

Hello from the fairy garden at Coquette Point,

I was walking in my garden early Wednesday morning and low and behold I found a van and beside it a tent full of French backpackers. I took a few photos and left them undisturbed to sleep. Later that morning, quite coincidentally,  my neighbour brought his big tractor through on our internal connecting track and he was astonished to see a tent with eight legs running before him.  Above the French screams John W roared with laughter.  Take a look down the bottom of your garden, you never know what you may find.

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.

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.