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Whitehaven Beach
Whitehaven Beach Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island (map) is justifiably famous for its seven kilometres of gleaming white sand. The island is one of the Whitsunday group comprising 74 islands and...
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Cassowary and Goanna in tropical rainforest
Southern Cassowary While I was in the Mission Beach rainforest (see previous post) I saw lots of local wildlife. The big, special, local species is of course the Cassowary, one of Australia’s (and the...
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Wallaman Falls
Wallaman Falls from the lookout Wallaman Falls are 268 metres in height, making them the highest permanent single-drop waterfall in Australia. The gorge below them is one limb of a branching network,...
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Australia has just over twenty species of goanna (aka monitor lizard) but if anyone talks about seeing ‘a goanna’ they usually mean the largest local species. In our case, that’s the Lace Monitor,...
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We visited Alligator Creek today. It was very beautiful after recent rain and more photos will appear here soon but the goanna we saw in the picnic ground gave us so much pleasure that it should have a...
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