17th September 2014 Daintree

We were going to go fishing today but the park management was working on the access road to the beach.
We headed up through the Daintree going towards Cape Tribulation, it was another very windy road up over the range, but who was in a hurry? Not us, we were there to enjoy the scenery.
As we travelled up it was great to see so many great beaches.
When we got to the beach at the cape there was a lot of other people who were all trying to take photos of one another.
On the way back down we stopped at an icecream factory that made their own icecream from the fruit they grew in the orchard, they had wattle seed, which tasted like cappuccino, chocolate pudding fruit, just like chocolate,  I forgot the correct name, passionfruit like you wouldn't believe and macadamia nut all served in a bowl together, yum yum, a reason to go back.
Next down the road was a discovery centre, it had a hsnd held audio unit so that you could get information about the rainforest as you walked through, there was elevated walkways as well as ground level walkways.  There was also a tower that went up 75 metres, there was 5 landings all with information about what you may be looking at eg: plants, birds, butterflies, one of the walkways was called the cassowary walk, as the birds often walked through there, none fid while we were in there.
As we were about to reverse out of the carpark Merv looked in the rear vision mirror and saw a cassowary in the carpark. We jumped out quietly but it was in the bush before we got there, they move so fast just with their normal stride. We couldn't see it, I walked up another road near it to look in the bush, then I saw it, they camouflage so well, I sneaked into the bush to try to get a photo,  it was hard it kept getting behind a bush, then suddenly it came straight at me, I just held my breath and hoped it wasn't mad at me, it passed me no more than 1 metre away then continued across the road and back in the bush. Merv stopped another car that wanted to rush through as it was coming out.
What a day, so many wondrous things in one day, then as we were driving back there were Ulysses butterflies flying back and forth across the road in front of us, what a shade of blue.