Noah Beach, Daintree National Park: Same same but different

We are moving around the corner today, from one beach to the next one down the Cape. On the way we took a short hike in the rainforest near Emmagen Creek, where we had been assured we would see the endangered and elusive cassowary bird. We were enjoying walking the picturesque track, but there was no sign of the bird … until just before the end of the track, it was spotted in the bushes ahead of us, the absolutely massive bird looking resplendent with it's bright blue plumage. We were quite chuffed with ourselves, as we had been searching for a cassowary since Mission Beach. After this excitement, we drove to some markets at a resort, but there was not much there - in fact the drive was more interesting than the destination. We went on an interesting boardwalk through the mangroves, where the midges were hungry for our flesh, and we enjoyed a coffee on the beach at a cafe of the same name (Cafe on the Beach). Tonight we are staying at Noah Beach campground, which is only a few isolated campsites scattered amongst the rainforest within the National Park, just back from the beach. As the slogan goes - “Where the rainforest meets the sea” that's where we were. We got a good site, except for a bad smell maybe from a dead animal nearby. We carried our chairs and a bottle of wine down to the beach for happy hour - but we were not the only ones with this idea. Olive has been having fun at the beach collecting more things - shells, seed pods, rocks and almost anything. We will have to cull her collection as we wont be able to fit it all in our van.