It is not often you can say your first tick for a place is a cassowary,
but that happened to me this weekend. Robyn and I had escaped late
Friday afternoon and set up the caravan down at the small caravan park
at beautiful Etty Bay near Innisfail. We had just settled down to a
glass of wine and I was thinking about a bird list for the site (I had
heard laughing kookaburra and forest kingfisher) but the first bird
sighting turned out to be a large male cassowary wandering quietly
through the park - he turned out to be a regular visitor late afternoon
and early morning, seemingly unconcerned with people, cars and tents and
eating the native figs and other fruit on the ground.
Any southern visitor this winter grey nomad season needing a cassowary
tick should find this one relatively easy.
Ian Cowan
Clifton Beach
ps Etty Bay is a dog free zone
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