Mission Beach is a small coastal town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2016 census Mission Beach and surrounding villages had a total population of 3,597 people.
The wettest place in Australia and it lived up to its name 3 days solid of rain. According to the locals it has had 38 days without rain this year and it is ruining the Banana crop. However, there still seemed to be plenty of Nanas around as we bought 6 for $2 from an honesty stall in town.
Ther is a great little craft market on Sundays where you can get unique things this fish made from drift wood as well as the usual clothes, jams chutneys etc.
Etty Bay
Etty bay is a lovely little beach with nothing but a cafe and campsite, but it is Cassowary central.
Cassowaries, genus Casuarius, are ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) that are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), East Nusa Tenggara, the Maluku Islands, and northeastern Australia.
There are three extant species. The most common of these, the southern cassowary, is the third-tallest and second-heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.
Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food, including shoots and grass seeds, in addition to fungi, invertebrates, and small vertebrates. Cassowaries are very wary of humans, but if provoked they are capable of inflicting serious injuries, occasionally fatal, to dogs and people. It is often called “the world’s most dangerous bird”.
