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This week we travel further north up Cape York Peninsular through the town of Laura to the Lotus Bird Lodge where we stayed in a special retreat accommodation by the small lake known in Australia as a billabong where thousands of water birds of many species gather during the dry season and harmoniously dwell together, resting on and by the […]
As my granddaughter is spending a few days with us during her school vacation, so I will share a brief post of Australia’s only endemic crane which is known as the Brolga, which we saw on several occasions during our adventure north on the Cape. This name is derived from the Indigenous Gamilaraay word burralga for this bird. We were […]