Cape York Trip - Day 40

Darryl took off at 6:30am on his bike to check out the mining trail to see perhaps where his Trembath ancestors mined gold. The rangers came around, and it turns out one of them is Paul Bufi!!!! Darryl’s second cousin twice removed. He was very surprised by the coincidence of it. Darryl enjoyed his 8km or so, trip along the mining trail and to the Mulgrave River Causeway. From where he turned back it was 11 more kilometers to the Babinda Boulders.

Evidence of Cassowaries

Fresher evidence of Cassowaries

Spectacled Monarch (in the middle of the photo)

On return he was walking in the scrub when he came across a big black snake (but he was pretty sure it wasn’t a red-bellied black). I saw 3 goannas while he had a nap, one was being chased by 4 scrub-turkeys. Once again we enjoyed a cold soak in the Mulgrave River.

Mulgrave River

Here we could see the Waterfall (on the right) that we walked to the previous day

Stone Curlew nest and egg

The Stone Curlews

White-faced pigeon

White-faced Pigeons were eating some sort of berry in a tree. Ulysses Blue butterflies flitted by and Darryl helped my identify a bird called the Spectacled Monarch. We were the only ones camped there as we watched the sky as the clouds cleared to show us over 5 satellites, 5 meteorites, 1 firefly, & 4 bandicoots.

Bandicoot searching for grubs

Scorpio in the sky