According to the Wikipedia, the Southern Cassowary is the second-largest bird in Australia and the third-largest remaining bird in the world. Adult Southern Cassowaries are 1.5 to 1.8 m (5½ feet) tall and weigh about 60 kilograms (130 pounds). A reclusive forest dwelling flightless bird, they have a long sharp claw on each foot that can be used to rip out your guts if you get too close. There are historical references to Cassowaries killing humans, but they are shy creatures, and will seldom reveal themselves to the casual tourist.

Cassowaries are a protected species in Australia.

Cane Trains on the Coast of Queensland

Sugarcane has been cultivated for more than 2000 years by mankind. Botanically, Sugarcane is known as Saccharum officinarum, and it belongs to the family Gramineae. The grass’s two-inch thick stalk can grow as tall as 20 feet in densely packed rows.

The Police State of Australian History

At the dawn of time Australia was part of one massive continent that covered the earth. This eventually broke up as the oceans formed, and this land was called Gwandanaland. Australia is ancient, flat and remote; and also one of nature’s cruelest places in terms of natural selection, and the history of its inhabitants.

The first people started to appear some 60,000 years BC. The next creature to arrive on the scene of significant impact was the Dingo, which arrived some 3,500 years ago and decimated of most of the original slow-moving marsupials.

You can buy Nucifora Tea on the roadside or in shops.

Grown in the rich agriculture district of Palmerston, the Nuciforas have been growing tea here for more than 15 years. They only harvest the tender young tips of the plants, which produces top quality tea.

Nucifora Tea is grown without pesticides or herbicides in a tropical paradise. The weather in the area near Innisfail is surrounded by vast banana plantations, miles of paw paws, millions of acres of sugar cane, and pasture land stretching from the eastern fringe of coastal forests on the Coral Sea to the Atherton Tablelands to the west. This is a very special place.

Stop by any time, day or night, and get some tea from their roadside stand, just leave the few dollars they ask in the can and when you get home brew a pot of delicious tea from Queensland.