A young male cassowary with full colours headed directly for the group of fruit tasters on the orchard tour yesterday, stopped 5 metres away, veered to the left and then turned and came back towards the group a second time.
We think he was on a regular fruit patrol in the orchard to check the Soursop trees and was following his routine path. It just so happened that 20 people were blocking his route, and he took a while to work out how to go around them. Pete was the guide and positioned himself between the tasters and the bird, and stood on tiptoes to make himself look taller. Telling the story later he said "I figured that I was getting paid and they weren't, and it was my job to be in the frontline."
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