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News from Coquette Point

11/6/2012

 
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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.

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27/5/2012

 
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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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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

10/3/2012

 
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Feb 25 2012
Hello from Crocodile Country,

Living anywhere along the northern coast of Australia one must be mindful of crocodiles. It is a total false expectation to believe that any programme of culling or removal can make the waters safe.  It is the absolute stupidity of locals in wading out into streams on sunset that invites crocodile attack.

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News from Coquette point

10/3/2012

 
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Feb 11 2012
Hello from Coquette Point,
The rainforest is holding its breath as we sit in the steamy doldrums.  Occasionally the leaves at the very top of the rainforest canopy rustle and then as if the effort was to much they still and return to droop in the heat. The monsoon has moved north and we wait its return and the rain it will bring.  The next surge in the Monsoon should come with the new moon.

Grace Uhr journalist and photographer Stewart Mc Lean of the Cairns Post visited Coquette Point this week to do a story on the Little Tern.

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News from Coquette Point

1/2/2012

 
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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.

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