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.

Myrtle Rust - Alert
"Last Friday (25 May )was the Cassowary Recovery Team meeting at the Wet Tropics Management Authority.   One topic of discussion was the rapid emergence of Myrtle Rust in the region. This destructive exotic fungal disease has now invaded Mossman Gorge, Smithfield Conservation park and has been detected North of the Daintree River"   It has been found to be particularly infectious on the soft fleshy fruited members of the Myrtaceae family (over 50 species).

These also happen to make up a large part of the diet of Cassowary putting this already endangered species under even greater threat".  Alan Sheather, Daintree Cassowary Group facebook.

Hello from mysterious Coquette Point,

As the Super Moon rose tonight I am sure I saw ‘dark creatures’ coming out from the shadows.  An eerie eh-eh-eh- call murmured and then shrieked within the mangroves.