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Across the day we have a Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country, Jumping Castle, Live Music, Petanque, Tai Chi, Sausage Sizzle, Chatty Café, Indian Cooking Demonstration, Live Animals courtesy of the Wildlife Habitat, a family history workshop, beading workshop, and our Op Shop the NicNak Shed will be having a sale.

The Daintree River Ferry will experience a number of service interruptions from Friday 13 May to Wednesday 18 May due to low tides and sand build up caused by recent flooding.

A PROPOSED nursery will seek to grow 150,000 native plants per year in Cow Bay to help restore and regenerate the Daintree Rainforest.

The turtle is among a number of freshwater species which uses its cloaca (equivalent to its bum) to breathe while underwater, thus able to stay submerged underwater for longer.

IN BRIEF / The latest news affecting the Douglas Shire

“…whatever the result on 21 May some fairly courageous policy changes must be made. A major shift in the tax burden away from labour and towards capital and consumption is a start…”

Enjoy our definitive guide to the Mothers Day weekend events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….

Enjoy our definitive guide to the weekend events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….

“Australians should now be questioning the stripping away of virtually all Covid controls. Intelligent economic management suggests we should be retaining as many cheap and easy controls as possible in order to prevent the need for costly lock-downs”

Enjoy our definitive guide to the ANZAC DAY long weekend events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….