we drove back up to the Mossman Gorge in the Daintree Rainforest. It was much more crowded at 10AM, compared to at 8AM and the water was too cold for me (how can that be in the tropics?), but the others went in and even tested out floating through some currents and rocks.
I missed the photo of Mike getting onto this rock - imagine a classic.
We had our last picnic lunch of bread and cheese in Australia near the parking lot of the Mossman Gorge area and changed out of our swim stuff (mine was dry, so it was easier). Mike went over to the car to drop off the things we didn't need for the afternoon hike and suddenly he was waving to us frantically. Who would have believed that a cassowary's path would include the edge of a crowded parking lot! What a weird looking flightless bird it is and there we stood, just a few yards away.
Here he/she? is headed for the Subaru! They're solitary animals, except when the male is raising the chicks, but they have habit paths that they follow for a few days at a time searching for food. Did he/she know the ice cream truck was parked there for the day? Oh, this was quite a find and made our day!
What else is there to say? We saw a cassowary in the wild (next to a Subaru). However, we finished off the day with a walk and some rock climbing by the longer legged members of the family. Charlie and I stayed back to dunk our feet in the water. He figured out which hand is his left while they were gone - home schooling at its best.
Molly and Charlie like to play tourguide on the hikes. Molly was definitely paying attention to yesterday's tour with the real guide. She told me that the small trees growing in the forest will sometimes wait millions of years for another large tree to fall so that they can get enough sunlight to grow. Well, some of the time references seem to have been confused, but it was the right sentiment.Did I mention we saw a cassowary, in the wild?
We went back to the Tin Shed for dinner, because the view is hard to beat.
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