We’ve certainly had a wildlife filled few days since my last article! We stayed at the stunning SeaSalt Beach House and took an amazing tour with ‘Gone Wild Safaris’ in search of platypus, possums and wallabies and we also visited one of our favourite wildlife parks the ‘Cairns Tropical Zoo’.
This amazing creature is called ‘Boyd’s Forest Dragon’. They are found only in the rainforest of Tropical North Queensland and are easy to spot at Mossman Gorge just near Port Douglas. if you know what to look for. They live in the trees and play hide and seek by creeping around the tree away from oncoming danger. You’ll usually spot the tips of their fingers curved around a narrow trunk before you see the rest of them, hidden around the back of the tree. Although their diet consists mostly of insects I wouldn’t recommend trying to get too close to it as they have very sharp claws and bite really hard.
I spotted this forest dragon hiding in the trees while we were at Cairns Tropical Zoo.
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