Taj Tattles 9 Cooktown

Townsville

We saw an eastern long neck turtle.  We went to the turtle hospital and some were green sea turtles.  There were big sharks and Giant Trevally.  There was a sword fish and a big green sea turtle that wasn’t sick, there were zebra turkey fish. AT lunch time they got fed, the sharks chased the turtle around because he could get the food out from in the rocks and then the sharks would steal it off him.  There was one fish who got no food and then finally at the end he got a piece.  The fish only get fed four times a week.



Swimming at Paronella Park



Paronella Park

We went to Paranella Park.  It was a caravan park and it had two different waterfalls.  One was big and one was small.  We got to see micro bats sleeping, they had cute noses.  There was a castle there and a picnic area and a playground.  Nobody knew where the playground was so it would have been better if we could find the playground.  Then I would liked to stay there for another night.  We did the night and day tour.  The day tour I didn’t like but that was the one where we got to see the bats.  AT the night tour I got to see heaps of eels.  In the morning when we had brekkie I got to pat two eels.  It was cool.  There was heaps of fish there.  Some eels came out in the day but all of them come out at night when it’s there dinner time.  We saw a new type of turtle it was called a snapping turtle.  You couldn’t fish there.

Kurrimine beach

It was so fun, we finally got to go on the jumping pillow but it wasn’t pumped up when we got there.  They had a great big chess game and I played Ry.  It ended up being king versus king and Ryley won.  They had a massive pool with a jumping pillow in it.  The jumping pillow was in the middle and it was really cool.  It also had a cool playground and I learnt to do a front flip.

The Boulders



Snrokelling at The Boulders

We went to The Boulders and we saw our first cassowary.  I wanted to kill it because it is dangerous and I was scared.  But then I didn’t want to kill it because the girls said it chased her around the table because she had a sausage.  So now I know why people died from a cassowary, because people annoyed it.  We found a playground.  Ryley saw a turtle but I didn’t.  Dad got to see a fish but I didn’t.  I got attacked by green ants, I got bitten and it hurt a lot.  We saw our first bird wing butterfly but it was dead and I felt really sorry for it.  This is when I ate my first green ant.  It tasted like warheads, if nobody knows what warheads are they’re really sour and they make you go psycho.  Now I eat heaps of green ants.

 

Lion’s den

 

We made a big hut on the beach.  We saw a snake on the road, it was cool.  We made a new friend, I don’t know her name though.  She was fun to play with and we were playing a game where we got to put sand down on each other.  I was the one that stayed up for the most and I cut my leg.  We got some fruit off the tree, it was mango. 

Cooktown

It was very very very windy at Cooktown.  We went up to the lighthouse and when we got out of the car we almost got blown over.  Me and mum went walking to a park.  Ryley got a hook caught in his leg.  I didn’t know because I was playing at the playground.  I was playing tiggy with kids that were aboriginal.  We played for a very long time.  I got to pick what colour was Bali, I picked black and blue.  We tried looking for a really really big croc but we didn’t see it.  We tried for three days but we were always too late.

Newell beach

At Newell beach we went to the Daintree and did croc tours.  On our first one we only saw one croc but on the next one we saw five.  They looked hungry.  We saw six out of the two days that we went on charters.