I went outside and spotted a medium sized wallaby doing some lawn maintenance. I grabbed the camera and was just about to click the shutter release when it was spooked by a noise from the forest. Yet another cassowary in the garden. I’m going to miss these when we move back home. Cassowary having a [...]
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Garden Cassowary
Another fine specimen wandering around the garden. As with the photo of the recent juvenile cassowary visitor these were taken through fly screens covering the louvred windows.
Juvenile cassowary
We had a visitor to the garden today. The cats weren’t impressed as they have never seen a bird this big before and only two feet away from their just-about-to-pop-out eyes. Photo quality is a bit lacking as the shots were taken through either glass or flyscreen. I could have gone outside but human contact [...]
Waterfalls, monsters and ghosts
It was humid yesterday so we did the usual thing and escaped inland to the Atherton Tablelands for some relief. You wouldn’t believe how enjoyable a couple of hours sitting in an air-conditioned car can be on a humid day in the Wet Tropics. Environmentally unfriendly? Yes but some days can be unbearably humid so [...]
