Dunk Island (part four)

On the Saturday we undertook our major walk – the climb to Mount Kootaloo and then on to the circuit walk via Coconut Beach.

Mount Kootaloo which provides good views of the neighbouring islands

also has the remains of equipment used at the No 27 Radar Station manned by members of the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.

During the walk the vegetation changed from trees with vines to palms and other tropical vegetation.

We had been warned to watch out for the wait a while, a rapidly growing vine with small sharp spikes designed to attach itself to other plants.

Fungi also abounded in a variety of shapes and colour and a number of the plants had coloured flowers, standing out from the many shades of green.

There were a number of small birds, usually high in the canopy, but on the path to Mount Kootaloo we were entertained by a female brush turkey wandering in front of us and we also saw an orange footed scrub hen in the distance.

  Snakes also inhabit the island and beside the path we saw, on two occasions, small brown tree snakes.

The previous day we had seen a small green tree snake in the garden at the resort.

The beach at Coconut Beach has many large round boulders which look quite dramatic contrasting with the flat stretches of sand and the water.

This ten kilometre walk was a great way to view the vegetation and wildlife on the island.