Site Report: Mission Bay - Lacey Creek

Visits

• 2012-11-17: We headed down to Mission Beach to make our last-ditch attempt at seeing a cassowary. The lady at our hotel thought that Lacey Creek might be a good spot, but I am not sure if it is any better for finding them or because if has a bunch of informational signage about the cassowary and what it likes to eat. I had spent a couple of hours here before sunset the previous night walking around in circles on the short nature trail with no luck in finding a cassowary. Now, I found myself here at sunrise of the day I would be leaving Queensland for Sydney. After walking around the trail a couple more times, I pretty much gave up and went over to look at all the information about the cassowary. For instance, the cassowary has a wicked claw that it can use to tear out your throat if it gets upset. Oh, and they can get up to about six feet high. Anyway, I finally gave up for good on finding the bird, but as I turned around to go back to the car, there was nothing other than a cassowary on the footpath walking straight toward me! Not wanting to lose all my blood, I stopped in my tracks. The cassowary walked right up to me. It wasn't quite six feet tall but rather a younger bird about three feet tall. The cassowary gave me a "look" then made some gurgling sound and walked away.

Species Seen

Lifelists

• Australasia
• World

Trips

• Eastern Australia