MATING TIME FOR CASSOWARIES & THE COLOUR BLUE
June 21st, 2009 | 
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Junior watches his father mating with a new female
In a complex rainforest, where every imaginable shade of green dapples into kaleidoscopic patterns, the blue on the Cassowary’s neck, blue cassowary plums, blue quandongs, blue Ulysses butterflies and the amazing blue water of Cooper Creek, contrast vividly against the verdant hues of the Daintree rainforest vegetation.
According to renowned naturalist and film-maker David Attenborough, the blue colour on the cassowary’s neck is the sexual attraction and he suggested that their diet of blue fruit (Cassowary plums, blue quandongs, blue ruby and others) could enhance colour during mating time.
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New Rainforest Experience in the Daintree
Finally, a rainforest experience that showcases the best of the world’s oldest surviving rainforest - without modification! Travelers to tropical north Queensland are directed into a variety of ‘Daintree Rainforests’ featuring man-made structures including boardwalks, vehicle-based tours, bike-riding, horse-riding, bunjy-jumping, parachuting, hang-gliding, zip-lining, cable-gondolas … the choices are incredible. But the greatest difficulty would seem to be the getting into pristine rainforest without any gimmickry at all.
Night Walking in the Cooper Creek in the Daintree Rain Forest by T. Namaya
The Daintree rain forest is more than 100 million years old and though only a million acres of it still exists on the eastern border of Australia from Cairns to Cook Town, it is one of the most ecological vibrant and intact rain forests. Nevertheless, like the Great Barrier Reef it borders, it is a fragile irreplaceable jewel whose fate is in human hands.
Hasslebarry and the Cassowary
A tour of Cooper Creek Wilderness rainforest is enhanced by the appearance of some of the rare and unique inhabitants.
One visitor was so inspired by the sighting of a cassowary in its natural habitat, and appreciating its amazing relationship with the Daintree Rainforest, that he wrote this poem.
Hasslebarry and the Cassowary
by Laurence Horner,
A hunter, name of Hasslebarry
Had never shot a Cassowary
He’d plugged and marked and felled he’d boast
But never on the Queensland coast
‘I hear,’ he said, ‘the bird is flightless
Ungainly, slow, and almost sightless
And given it’s endangered status
I’d best kill one without hiatus,’
So putting up his house to let
He hopped upon a Qantas jet
Sunday 8th February 2009
High tide, early morning Sunday 8th February 2009. One of the highest tides of the year. This is me, Prue walking along the beach towards the mouth of Cooper Creek. On my right, Thornton Peak, the highest mountain in the Daintree rainforest, towers over the area. Its impacts stretch between Cape Tribulation in the north and the Daintree River in the south. This is where the rainforest meets the reef. This is the heart of the world’s oldest rainforest.