I visited Alexandria Bay at Noosa National Park last Thursday. It’s a beautiful place about 160 kms north of Brisbane on the east coast of Australia.
Pandanas palm with view to Pacific Ocean.
There is a sandy track that winds through woodland and heathland from Sunshine Beach.
Scrub turkey under pandanas palm.
It is always fun to explore rock pools.
Rock pool at northern headland.
The same rock pool from a higher ledge.
The same rock pool from a higher ledge.
On the way home it was sad to find a stranded stingray.
Stingray on the beach.
During previous visits to Noosa National Park I have seen a koala and an echidna.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
I think we have missed out on a pool pic
Sorry Gavin, all should be there now. The initial photographs were not clear enough. So, I reloaded with higher resolution photographs … I just hope the post is not too hard to now download for those without broadband?
Thanks Jennifer. Cool pool, fascinating perpendicular lines, nice turkey shot and all great heritage stuff. Unfortunately sea level is rising.
Gavin is an Idiot. Having visited Noosa for over a generation and
now living here, I haven’t seen a slightest rise in water level.
Jenn, did you notice that the Hastings street Beach (Laguna Cove) is missing again?. Natural erosion keeps stealing the beach. There is a permanent program pumping sand from the river mouth back to replenish the beach and foreshore – after all wouldn’t want all those zillion dollar resorts along the beach front to be washed away.;)
As regards rising waters. You can still find some old fotos in some places which show Noosaville under water – from floods. To discourage the punters from checking out the flood prone areas cheeky developers keep removing the water flood level poles.
Jenn did you catch the other “wild life” around at Alexandria bay? If so we want to see the fotos!!
Jen,
Last time I was there [a couple of years ago] I saw 7 glossy black cockatoos feeding on the casuarina nuts.
Any sign of them?
I used to feed a flock of Bush Turkeys on my veranda – there was a male with about 7 – 8 wives and kids. He built a huge nest nearby. Perfectly raked forest floor.:-) They used to chase the goannas and peck their tails to drive them away – goannas like turkey eggs.
Hay janama, I hope you weren’t feeding those turkeys corn, it makes them tough. They taste much nicer, if fed on oats. [Kidding]
They can be a damn nuisance though. I was involved with the Happy Bay resort, on Long Island, in the Whitsundays, for a number of years. The island had a very large population of scrub turkeys, [many hundreds] with a number of nest mounds out the back of the resort, among some bamboo clumps. The tourists found them interesting.
However, regularly one or more of the younger males would decide to build a mound in amoung the resort cabins. As most tourists don’t like a turkey mound piled up against their cabin, we had to stop this.
We had tried moving their mound, with a front end loader, but even after a month of this every couple of days, they would not change the chosen spot.
We tried catching, & moving them a couple of miles or more, down the island. They would be back in a couple of days.
It was then we took a decided on the British, 18th century policy of deportation, of the troublesome.
For a number of years we transported at least a dozed males a year to Lindeman Island, dropping them off, at the far end of the island, when we took our house guests to visit the resort.
I used to think we were doing our bit to aid the turkey genetic pool on Lindeman. Then a bloke who had a holiday on the island told me he had not seen any turkeys there.
Since then I have often wondered if we established a terribly frustrated colony of bachelor turkeys, instead.