Port Douglas is a lovely small marina town, located around a small shopping street surrounded by marinas. As I was 2 days from Tara being back I decided to check out Cape Tribulation....on a very moody rainy day I thought I'd drove onto the set of Jurassic park.
I'm sure I would appreciated it more if it wasn't raining... But I took the ferry over the daintree river and entered the moody daintree rain forest home to the Cassowary. If you don't know what one is... Well...
The cassowaries are ratites, very large flightless birds, in the genus Casuarius native to the tropical forests of New Guinea, nearby islands, and northeastern Australia. There are three extant species recognized today. The most common of these, the Southern Cassowary, is the third tallest and second heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.
Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food including shoots, grass seeds, and fungi in addition to invertebrates and small vertebrates. Cassowaries are very shy, but when provoked, they are capable of inflicting serious or even fatal injuries to dogs and people.
In other words they are prehistoric emus with an attitude. Luckily I didn't see any as not only did I think I was on the set of Jurassic park, I was also in Daytona racing...sticking to the inside lines of a windy empty roads in the rain brought me much joy.... I did however manage to see some at the local wildlife habitat.. And prehistoric they are!
I can only imagine that on a sunny day Cape Trib is beautiful....but these are the photos I did take...
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