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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.

First snake seen since the start of winter

Went to investigate what Fox the dog was barking at Thursday night and the first snake of the season was standing up having a strike at him.  The night was icy cold and the snake was rather sluggish. I put it in the shrubs. 



A beautiful red lacewing butterfly was busy laying eggs in the trees around the nursery this week. I have a number of lacewing vines (Adenia heterophylla) however, the butterfly choose to lay her eggs on nearby trees. 


Max Mitchel finds a stray cat at the end of Coquette Point Road
Max Mitchel and mum Peace found a stray kitten at the end of the Coquette Point road.
 
Unfortunately this area seems to be a favourite place for dumping unwanted pets.

Zodiac moths reach the Moresby Range where the Satinash is flowering

The migration of the Zodiac moths is coming to an end with only a few strays seen today crossing the river. The satin ashes are flowering in the Moresby Range National Park, sheltered in the small valleys they escaped the ravages of TC Yasi’s winds.

Although there were hundreds of moths bobbing in and out of the tree I photographed I didn’t manage to get a photograph of more than one moth at a time.


From the top of the Moresby Range the Innisfail Valley has turned silver under the blossom of the sugarcane.

Innisfail Valley turns silver with the flowering of thet sugarcane
I was thrilled this week to see Cassowary Dad 2. I had not seen it for some months and although Bill F said he had,  I thought he must be mistaken. Dad 2 has distinct wattles and although the casque is similar to Dad 4 the wattles are unmistakable. Photos taken on Friday 22 at 1pm.
 
I have not been able to identify the cassowary that was killed but there are two extra chicks by themselves. They are getting along fine and I see one regularly and eating from the feed station. The other chick hangs out on the other side of the range.
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The new sewerage upgrade is progressing ahead of time according to the PR report from CCRC.  The derrick of the crane working on the overflow outlet at Ninds Creek looks like a monster appearing out of the primeval mangrove forest.
Crane derrick looms from the mangrove forest at Ninds Creek
The sunsets over the Innisfail Valley have been brilliant this week.   Unfortunately it is due to the smoke from fires all over the CCRC area.  QNPWS continue their burning programme with another announcement in today’s
Sunset on the Johnstone
 Innisfail Advocate.  I have seen a cassowary after it was caught in a fire and it was horrible. Cassowaries have no sense of fire danger it is something they have not evolved with.  Although the nights are crisp the days are certainly getting hotter.   

Enjoy the weather while it lasts and hope for rain to put the fires out.
 

Cheers Yvonne C.


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