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travelers stories about Jungle in Mount Whitfield Environmental Park Cairns, Australia

Jungle in Mount Whitfield Environmental Park Cairns, Australia

Rain makes rain forests, but rain forests also make rain. Billions of bacterial particles combine with transpired and evaporated moisture to form and seed clouds which then rain on the forests in a magical natural cycle. Photo taken in Mount Whitfield National Park, Cairns, Australia.


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travelers stories about Wildlife in Cairns Botanic Gardens, Australia

Wildlife in Cairns Botanic Gardens, Australia

Radjah shelducks are a pretty type of duck found in Australia and New Guinea. This one is enjoying an early morning swim at Freshwater lake in Cairns Australia.


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travelers stories about Forest in Cairns Botanic Gardens, Australia

Forest in Cairns Botanic Gardens, Australia

A small fern growing on a bamboo culm in the Cairns Botanic gardens Australia. I like the bokeh in this photo with the blurred bamboo in the background and the fern in focus in the foreground.


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Jungle in Cairns Botanic Gardens, Australia

A lush planting of palms and ferns in the rain forest at the Cairns Botanic Gardens in Australia (Daintree Fan Palm Licuala ramsayi, and water fern Blechnum nudum).


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travelers stories about Wildlife in Cairns Cemetery, Australia

Wildlife in Cairns Cemetery, Australia

  3 km from Whitfield


I like the way the soft late afternoon light illuminates the face of this bird. Bush stone-curlews are nocturnal, and their big eyes help them to catch insects at night. These birds are also extremely well camouflaged when lying on stones, or dead leaves and twigs, but easy to see here on a lawn.


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travelers stories about Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

  5 km from Whitfield


A cow nose ray swims past at the Cairns Aquarium. These fascinating and rather weird-looking rays are a type of eagle ray, and are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean from New England to Brazil.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

  5 km from Whitfield


The Clown triggerfish has a bizarre pattern. Triggerfish are territorial, and will sometimes bite a scuba diver who has intruded into their territory.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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This huge Queensland groper (or grouper) is a new addition to the Cairns aquarium in Australia. He is maybe 1.2 metres long. Truly a monster fish!


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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A Honeycomb Stingray checks me out as it swims past at the Cairns Aquarium. I love the dazzling camouflage pattern. Also known as a Reticulate Whipray, and found in the Indian Ocean off East Africa through to Taiwan and south to Australia in the Pacific Ocean.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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Paddletail snappers are pretty fish found from the Red Sea through to Japan and Australia. People usually avoid eating them as they can cause ciguatera poisoning.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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These amazing fish can spot an insect or other prey sitting on a branch overhanging the water, come to the surface, and squirt a jet of water at the insect, knocking it off its perch and into the water, where the archer fish catches and eats it.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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A close up of a Queensland Grouper (or Groper as they called in Australia), at the Cairns aquarium. I estimate this fish to be about 1.2 metres long (over a yard).


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travelers stories about Wildlife in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

Wildlife in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

  5 km from Whitfield


The water creates some distortion, but I still like the lovely pastel colours of the painted crayfish, which actually works as camouflage on a colourful tropical coral reef.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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A yellow-banded sweetlips fish swims close to the glass at the Cairns aquarium. In Australia we like to keep things simple, and the name of this fish speaks for itself.


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travelers stories about Wildlife in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

Wildlife in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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Eastern Water Dragons often sun bake near water, and then cool off in the water. They also tend to escape and hide in the water if they feel threatened.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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A pretty yellow seahorse at the Cairns Aquarium. These are dainty little creatures, which are difficult to find in nature. I was privileged to see a leafy sea dragon while scuba diving off Portsea pier in Melbourne Australia, years ago.


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Underwater in Cairns Aquarium, Australia

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A Copperband Butterflyfish swims past a soft coral at the Cairns Aquarium in Australia. These fish are also called Beaked Coralfish. Chelmon rostratus.


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travelers stories about Underwater in Cairns City, Australia

Underwater in Cairns City, Australia

  6 km from Whitfield


The fish in the background look spooked to me, with two swimming away, as an ominous-looking juvenile hammerhead shark glides past. Photo taken at the Cairns aquarium.


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Underwater in Cairns City, Australia

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Close up of a lionfish. These fish are beautiful but have poisonous spines, and have been introduced to the Caribbean, where they are now a pest. Photo taken at the Cairns Aquarium, Australia.


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travelers stories about Wildlife in Esplanade, Australia

Wildlife in Esplanade, Australia

  6 km from Whitfield


The tide was coming in, so the pelicans were flying to a dry spot. I am trying to improve my photography of birds in flight (and wildlife generally) because I am going on holiday to Kenya in a month’s time. Pelicans are big and relatively slow so they make good subjects for practice at capturing birds in flight.


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