Silkwood
is a small sugar farming community centred just west of the Bruce Highway
between Cardwell and Innisfail in North Queensland. It’s only a fairly
short drive from Silkwood to some of the best beaches in this part of the
world, including Kurrimine and Mission Beach, where lush tropical vegetation
slides down to the white sand and an azure sea. Protected by the wave-taming
Great Barrier Reef, the beaches offer superb fishing, boating, sailing and
beachcombing.
It’s in this area that you’ll find two of nature's rare and beautiful
species - the spectacular, iridescent blue Ulysses butterfly, and the huge
and flightless cassowary. Found only in north Queensland and Papua-New Guinea,
the cassowary's origins trace back to pre-historic times when Australia was
part of the huge Gondwana continent.
