{"id":4730,"date":"2013-11-08T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtour-outdoorexperience.com\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2017-11-23T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T10:45:58","slug":"djiru-national-park_mission-beach_cassowary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtour-outdoorexperience.com\/en\/djiru-national-park_mission-beach_cassowary\/","title":{"rendered":"Djiru NP: Meeting with a Cassowary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunday afternoon we reached Mission Beach<\/strong> after our testimonials about Big 4 Atherton Woodlands Cabine and Van Park. Mission Beach<\/strong> is nice but i’m already bored because I’m not in the mountains anymore.<\/p>\n

After a huge \u00a0fire pit on the beach under an amazing starry sky , I decide to go back to the villa to \u00a0sleep well. Tomorrow I want to go to Dunk Island<\/span> by kayak!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it won’t happen. Indeed the crocodile and sting ray season is starting and it’s impossible to use a kayak more than 300 m offshore. Mainwhile I had seen on the map an other possibility: Walking in the Djiru National Park<\/span> and chill out to a creek. And it’s exactly what I did.<\/p>\n

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I walked 4 hours to do 27 km. Bush trails were really nice but more importantly, I crossed two Cassowaries<\/strong> and one of them was 1.5 meters beside me! By safety, I walked at the same rythm a little bit further to let it get out of the bushes and wait for the picture. I was really stunned to see one because only 1000 left in the rainforrest (it’s an endangered specy and it’s role is really important for a specy of tree because to germinate its seed, the cassowary has to eat and digest it.). It’s a really big bird, bigger than an emu and very aggressive when with its chicks.<\/p>\n

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Happy about this meeting, I finish my loop aby coming back to our Villa. My feet hurt… it’s time to have a shower and to stretch my whole body!<\/p>\n[map style=”width: 430px; height:242px; margin:10px 220px 10px 220px; border: 1px solid black;” maptype=”TERRAIN” kml=”http:\/\/worldtour-outdoorexperience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-10-28_Bushwalking_Djiru-National-Park_Mission-Beach.kml”]\n

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