One Saturday, June 20, we started out the morning at Wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas around 8am. They have a buffet breakfast at an outdoor covered space and there are many tropical birds on display while you eat. This place was super good at educating visitors. There were several guides giving informational talks as we walked through. We learned a lot!
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| Look at all that spider web! Ewww! And we HAD to walk under it! |
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| Spider guarding her egg sacks. |
One of the more interesting stories a guide told us was that scrub pythons get in the enclosures through the netting. They have to monitor the situation all the time as the pythons will eat birds and other wildlife. Scrub pythons are one of the giant snakes of the world. Nicknamed a "scrubbie," they can be 5 meters long. Many homes in Queensland have one or two resident scrubbies. They are non-venomous but can bite.
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| Tree kangaroo |
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| Green weaver ant |
In the afternoon we traveled to Mossman Gorge. The Mossman Gorge Center was celebrating their 3rd birthday, so they were serving cheesecake with coffee and live music (playing Mumford and Sons, etc). We enjoyed that and then took a shuttle to the gorge walk.
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| Mossman Gorge - June 20, 2015 |
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| amazing views |
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| dipping their toes |
Late afternoon, we went to Four Mile Beach for a bit. Had to say we swam in that part of the ocean. I can't say this was very enjoyable for me because as a mother it's hard to watch your whole family swimming in the ocean with warning signs posted all over (warning about marine stingers, sharks and crocodiles - all of which are deadly)!
After swimming, we showered and went to RattleNHum for dinner. This was a fun one for the kids!
We got up the next morning and drove to the airport. We stopped in Geelong to catch Mass on our way home.
What an adventure that was! I hope we make it back to Queensland again someday, as that was one of the best trips.
Sarah
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