Hello from Jungguy country,

Coastal wetlands are some of the most threatened habitats on the planet. The Melaleuca leucadendren swamps of Coquette Point are included in the World Heritage Wet Tropics and extended from the mouth of the Johnstone River to the Moresby Range, an area three kilometres long by ½ kilometre wide.

This swamp is a major fish spawning habitat and consists of large deep lagoons and shallow swamps of melaleuca, pandanus and tidal mangrove: this is the Johnstone River’s ‘everglades’.

Hello from Coquette Point,

After three weeks of cool, dry and sunny weather 5mls of rain fell last night and more is expected in the coming days. A large high is moving into the ‘Bight’, and it will signal a strong wind warning along the coast and the return of the inevitable rain. Early this week strong winds brought breaking waves across the Johnstone River bar reminding me yet again of Lieutenant  Johnstone’s report in 1872 of this ‘breaking bar across Gladys Inlet’.