Hi all,
A week of spectacular weather, wonderful to have fine weather for the school holidays.
The Johnstone River is clear, I can see the sand on the bottom, at long last! Today the river was sparkling and salty and very busy with boaties enjoying the sun.
A week of spectacular weather, wonderful to have fine weather for the school holidays.
The Johnstone River is clear, I can see the sand on the bottom, at long last! Today the river was sparkling and salty and very busy with boaties enjoying the sun.
The scrub fowls are rebuilding their mound. The mound was compacted from the constant rain over the last many months. The birds, although regularly visiting the site of the mound, had not been actively scratching and turning it over. So opportunists thieves, as most animals are, the scrub fowls are pinching my brand new pile of mulch, about one cubic metre per night. They are relocating it to their mound built behind my nursery soil bays: a distance of about ten metres.
They are piling it on top of the compacted compost and do not appear to be mixing it. Hopefully they will leave me some mulch to use on my garden.
Saw cassowary ‘Brown Cone’ again on Thursday, he is looking a lot stronger, hopefully he has found the feeding station. Got a couple of clear shots of his casque, both sides for identification.
Sharon Hoey President of the Chamber of Commerce was again spruiking the dredging of the Johnstone River in today’s Innisfail Advocate. One wonders at the naivety of these people, she and Mayor Shannon now thinks the toxic dredge sludge can be used for sand enrichment at Flying Fish Point. At least this is the guise by which Shannon can get ratepayers money to carry out a feasibility study. Before Council engages a consulting team and wastes $100,000 of ratepayers money he might pick up the phone to DERM and find out what you are allowed to do with dredge sludge or maybe he could look at Port Hinchinbrook and the problems they have had. Over 300 metres of mangroves are dead on the Coquette Point foreshore, this gives an indication of the toxicity of the silt at the mouth of the Johnstone River. What is amusing is a comment by Hoey that the dredging would perhaps only have to be done once. Perhaps she hasn’t looked at the silt load carried by this high energy river and this silt load is there every time it rains.
On a happy note the hyperactive sunbirds are building new nests, one over the table on the patio. I can have a cuppa and watch the building, isn’t that what life is all about.
Cheers Yvonne C.
On a happy note the hyperactive sunbirds are building new nests, one over the table on the patio. I can have a cuppa and watch the building, isn’t that what life is all about.
Cheers Yvonne C.
