Another perfect description of where we are staying. The owners throw their scraps out the back, (no walls here!) and so we've had fantastic views of the resident cassowaries and bandicoots.
We were involved in a bit of drama yesterday. The Dad of the cassowary family turned up at the house with his baby (the Dads incubate the egg and then do the looking after once it's hatched) and our host soon noticed that the baby was limping badly. He made several phone calls but everyone was passing the buck so he decided the best thing to do was to try to catch it and take it to the nearest vets, about an hour away.
We helped distract the Dad with some fruit and a waving tarpaulin and luckily it all went to plan. The baby sat in the box very calmly all the way to the vets. We're all waiting to hear whether he'll be able to be released into the wild again.
Talking of wild, here's N upside down, doing some "jungle surfing"!! The last slide was the fastest I've ever been! In the morning we'd been on a sea kayak. A beautiful kayak where they say, "two world heritage sites meet"; the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest.
Our host here has designed sculptures around the property. Here's a lace monitor bridge!
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