Tasmanian Tiger.

 I did a post on the Tasmania Tiger in 2016, this one or post is different, plus many new followers since then and of course some have moved on for various reasons.

The Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian wolf now extinct and has been for many a year was native to the Australian mainland and the Island of Tasmania and New Guinea.

Between 1888 and 1909, the Tasmanian government paid a bounty of 1 pound for every full-grown Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) killed.  For a juvenile or pup they paid 10 shillings.

More than 2,180 government bounties were paid between those years. It's estimated that at least 3,500 thylacines were killed by hunters between 1830 and the 1920s through both government and private bounty schemes. 

The last known thylacine was killed in the wild in 1930, and the species was officially declared protected in July 1936, just months before the last known individual died in captivity.

The Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) did not migrate to Tasmania, they were already present across Australia when the island separated from the mainland about 12,000 year ago.  They survived in Tasmania because the Bass Strait prevented the arrival of competition from dingoes, which likely wiped them out on the mainland around 3,000 years ago.

The Tasmanian tiger was blamed for killing the sheep, poultry and other animals.

A short video showing the Tiger.

Clifton Beach, Queensland.

Clifton Beach in Queensland is in the tropics approximately 22 km north of the city of Cairns.  It's also known as the local beach of Cairns even though Cairns is by the sea there is no beach there.  

The photos show the sign and do enlarge it for it has much information.  We have the pathway, and the Vinegar one needs to place on a sting from a stinger if you are unlucky enough to get strung.   In the winter time you don't often see any nasties at the beach or in the water but just in case it's best not to go into the sea.  The vinegar always remains in that red post, no one removes it and it always has vinegar in it, always.  There are nets in the sea to help keep them out.

I stood in an ant nest under one of those trees and of course ants were climbing up my legs, makes me shudder to think of it.  There was one big dash to remove them to move away further to the sea.

In the photos you can see a few Islands, Double Island, Haycock Island and Green Island.