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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peter C." data-source="post: 1524839" data-attributes="member: 68872">This is a brilliant report, Chowchilla!Unfortunately (sort of), this is yet another addition to the (already rather long) list of "must go" locations for when I (some day, eventually) return to Aus. My girlfriend and I were right nearby in 1993 (heading for Cape Tribulation and a bit of time on the Atherton Tablelands), and really hoped to see a Cassowary, but no luck. However, given what you've said (and that we only had a week in vicinity), that's not at all surprising - sounds like you need to go to just the right place, and you can still miss them.Should say though, that we really didn't mind at all - as others in this thread have been noting, on one's first visit to Qld, almost everything's a lifer! And that includes the birds running around on the grass next to the tarmac at the airport; we were so absorbed looking out the windows on the exit ramp from our 'plane, that the tour agent waiting for us wondered if we were coming at all. (I confess, with some retroactive embarrassment, that one of the birds which we were gawking at and saying "Wow, cool!" over was ... Common Myna! First trip outside the Americas, you know...) :clap:Peter C.</blockquote>