Last weekend I decided to have a 'mini break' and go somewhere different - Port Douglas. It's a little over an hour's drive from Mareeba, depending which road you take.
I spent most of Saturday at Wildlife Habitat. Here are some pics:
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| Friendly rainbow lorikeets |
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| Python |
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| Spinifex hopping mouse (in the nocturnal house) |
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| Crocodiles - male (left) and female (right). The female is just under 2 m long... |
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| Crocodile feeding (don't try this at home) |
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| Kangaroo feeding |
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| Joey having a drink |
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| Same joey having a nap (I'm so glad I'm not a kangaroo!!!) |
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| Black-necked stork (formerly called jabiru) and pied herons keeping a safe distance |
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| Cass, a female cassowary |
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| Koala in its natural state (they sleep for 20 hours a day!) |
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| Lumholtz tree kangaroo |
Later that afternoon I wandered around the main street and up to the Flagstaff Hill lookout before checking in at the motel and then finding a local pub to have dinner.
In the morning I went down to the craft market and then started the drive back to Mareeba via the coast and Kuranda range.
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| Rex's lookout |
I had a bit of time (due to forgetting to take my hiking boots, so I wasn't able to do the bush walk I had planned) so stopped in to visit the Butterfly Sanctuary in Kuranda instead.
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| Red lacewing butterfly |
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| Common eggfly butterfly |
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| Cairns birdwing (wingspan up to 18 cm!) |
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