Marching into Autumn...








Well, I will get our animal pictures out of the way early in this post.
Alejandro
 Alejandro now has a woman-Consuela-, but she is camera shy. We think she's a bit plain, he could do so much better.

Buff Banded Rail

and her baby...

Timmy having a tipple


Coolest caterpillar ever

We have had our share of Australia's rain over the last couple of months. This is as high as we have seen the creek in the 4 years we have been here. Fortunately its got the bay to drain into fairly close and a fair climb to the house.

 Quite muddy now from upstream, will have to leave the oysters awhile (as I am only eater of said oysters, they are usually left anyway).
We are on constant alert for "bog creatures" though.
What with all the rain and all, we thought, "maybe we should go camping".
First choice was Pretty Beach but it was flooded so...
Rain all the way down to Depot Beach on Friday arvo, it stopped long enough for us to set up camp ( I know I can't believe this either).  A bit of drizzle Saturday a.m. but then cleared and was beautiful-sometimes cloudy-but great.
Here are some shots from the weekend, it was a great place and we plan on a return trip. 
Camp in rain

We had a venture out to Durras North on Sat.



Relaxing Roos

Lovely woods

Then a wander on Depot Beach which had some of the most amazing rock pools. We got quite far across the rocks before we were beaten back by the ferocity of the Periwinkles . 
Sekaiya


Toryanna

Creek at Depot Beach

Cool Pool
Starfish

Ripple

There were a million (or so) crabs in the rocks.

Back at camp... Note the sun is out Woo Hoo!



fire

fire creature

..and so back to the grind and waiting for the netball draw to be posted so we can plan our next adventure!








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