Sunny weekend on the Beach

We woke up early Sunday and drove down to Cape Kidnappers again. We arrived at about 8:30 am. What an amazing shoreline. We were going to try and make it all the way out to the tip of the cape but we were warned high tide at three pm and would not be able to make the full trip with the time we had. So we headed up the beach and decided we would go as far as we could and turn back by noon. This time we did get further then the last but there were so many cool rock formations I got lost taking pictures so this slowed a down a bit. We did end up finding a cool dried up riverbed that snuck its way back into the cliff walls. As we walked deeper into the gully we began hearing a variety of birdcalls, one in particular stood out being quite unusual. We stopped and listened for a time as two of the same birds conversed with each other. The call consisted of a high pitch long note followed by a cluster of chatter. Another unusual thing was the sound that was created when this bird took flight. This bird was probably the size of a chickadee but its wings moved at a rate similar to a humming bird making a loud fluttering sound similar to sound you may be create if you held strip of paper out the window of a moving car. We met a couple shortly after listening to the bird and they told us the birds are known as Bellbirds. They told us that we could go a bit further back but if we went too far we could run into a cow corpse. We did not want to meet up with the cow corpse so we went just a little ways farther then had some snacks and meandered our way back to the beach and our car. We made it back by about two and headed home for an afternoon and evening of rest.