Beach combing

Took the children for a walk along the beach today whilst Tish was asleep pre night shift.
There was a huge amount of vegetative detritus

but the only corpses we found were a catfish skull and a dead fish that had probably been discarded from a net.
The children love the beach and spent hours looking for shells

You never quite know what you are going to see and today these two Beach Thick-knees were very obliging

I took a couple of panoramic shots
Looking north towards "the Knob"

Looking south towards Yarrabah and Cairns

The flow of water off the lowlands has slowed considerably - this is one of the main outflow streams

hardly a raging torrent!


The flooding has subsided and there are no problems getting out of Yorkeys now which is great - although one of my local birding areas is a bit damp...

Tish is on nights so tomorrow will drag the children round Cattana