Big Thirsty Aussies

Well, after a brilliant sunrise we headed off to try and track down the ever elusive whales yet one more time. Armed with new intelligence of time and location we arrived at the ruined lighthouse in the national park at 8am -(yes and on a Sunday too). The first "nature moment" of the day was this Kangaroo pretending we couldn't see her. Up to the top to the old Cape St Goerge lighthouse ruins. Apparently they built it in the wrong spot and it was more of a hazard than a help, so they blew it up with a bit of dynamite and erected a new lighthouse on Point Perpendicular, which you will be able to pick out in the sunrise photo, if not sue the school system for not teaching you what perpendicular means. Second "nature moment" was when we found a couple of feral children at the top. Here is the lighthouse. It is , by the way, haunted by the ghost of a young girl who tragically lost her life while living here. I'd tell you the story, but that would ruin the book f...

Ok so here is the exciting photo of the new trailer, was the wait worth it for you as well??.... This is a rose that Sekaiya bought me from the schools mini-fete (white elephant type thing) a few years ago. At the time it resembled (quite closely too I might add) a 4 inch stick in a pot. Last year saw our first flower, it was the one and only of that season. Now this year.... brilliant! Spent Saturday potting up all the flowers etc. that we need to take with us when we move. I will update the garden blog when we get a garden. For now it is life in a pot for most our plants. Chiles like pots though so that is ok! We also let young "Merle the Girl" get her first fresh air and sunshine of the season can you tell she is smiling? Today we went out to the national park to try and view some whales. No such luck, they reckon you can walk across the bay on the whales right now there are so many and yet they seem to be quite elusive when we are about! We did see another echidna and t...