Googara Beach Caravan Park

Googara Beach Caravan Park - Tulley Heads

Stop 9- 187kms

Heading to our overnight stop to check out the damage from Yasi and see if we could spot any cassowaries we spotted a few more big things...

Big Crab at Cardwell

 Big Boomerangs - Cardwell

 We stopped at Cardwell to look at what I thought was a Cyclone Yasi Memorial, it was a bronze tree with leaves blown off, trunk snapped in half, it was really cool...but on closer inspection...
It was just a bronze tree that snapped in the wind! hahahaha... sort of the same really..

 Big Gumboot at Tulley! - The local school was having a concert there with a Peter Combs-esc musician, so I joined in and sang with the school kids...who had the BEST costumes..everyone was awesome!

 Im not sure if you can usually get inside the gumboot and walk to the top but they had it open with streamers from the top...was pretty cool

 Gumboot frog and me

Big Cassowary - Mission Beach

So we got to Googara Beach, which was meant for us as it had...a big...

Me attempting to be a jelly fish...

George avoiding washing up his cup!

We went for a little explore around Mission Beach to find that they have a cassowary sign every 5m.. and nearly every sign is different... heres just few examples

 So after driving around all day and not seeing a single Cassowary, but being quite amused by the variety of signs on the roads, cars, wheelie bins and in front yards, we had given up on seeing one! We got back to the caravan park and our neighbour said they had just walked past our site! So we took off in the car again and found them a couple of 100m down the road...a mum and a baby

 Just a quick game of chess before drinks in the afternoon...

I think this photo sums up this area in an nutshell... Resilient and a good sense of humour!
This was a house on the oceanfront at Tulley Heads, their neighbour on one side was demolished and the other in the process of being re-built...

I wonder if it was anchored down before or after the cyclone hit?