Bush tucker Bruce

Sweet, juicy grapefruit, blue tongue berries, flowers that taste like mushrooms, eels that like being stroked and ants to put in your G & T. All true onthe Cassowary falls farm.

Bruce's endless enthusiasm for the forest and it's plants, and his wife knowledge of what is what, combined with a bit of mischief and some fantastic scenery make for a great couple of hours. Zipping around the farm in a seemingly unstoppable ATV, he explains what grows in the forest, why it grows and what you can eat.

Land is so fertile, and weather so wet n warm fruit grows especially quickly. Large and sweet.

Grapefruit sweet enough to be eaten straight from the tree, and incredibly juicy. Citrus fruit grows all year round.

World's oldest rainforest

Forest takes over pastures very quickly. Wattle plants appear first, birds settle on them, shit out seeds they have eaten and new plants and trees take over. 10 years cover of low trees. 30 years forest..

Called a "Vine forest" as vines, creepers, strangler figs cover neaLry everything.

Lawyer Cane. Small palm that grows incredibly strong bamboo like shoots across forest floor (the canes used for furniture making etc) which have long thin hooked tendrils which climb other plants to the canopy to access sunlight. Also known as "wait a while" as it hooks passers by who need to disengage before continuing.

Things tried.
Blue tongue berries
Wild lime
Wild nutmeg
Wild raspberry
Small blue flowers taste like mushrooms
Green ants taste like lemon ( can be served with gin)! Ants taste of lemon the ones I ate lived on citrus trees.

ATV ride through streams getting pax very wet, especially front row, up and down very steep banks and tracks and over seemingly impossible terrain, a treat in itself.

Cassowary falls
Very pretty waterfalls with lovely cool swimming pool. Semi tame eel that gets treats, loads of (saw back and?) turtles, and big number of trout. Possible to get behind falls before leaping into pool.
Took mask n snorkel. Big trout swim up to mask and stare!Læs mere