Big Thirsty Aussies

Well well well indeed! Wow over a month (nearly 2) has passed for which I apologize. Finally have the broadband back but fortunately nothing exciting has happened here so Bye! But seriously now what a full 2 months it has been. Well we got a Xmas tree (well it was exciting for us!) lets see, where to begin, well summer is upon us so have had ample opportunity to put canoe in the creek off the back yard. The girls like the new place as well. Next we had annual presentation night at the school and both girls came away with the Academic Achievement awards (which actually mead Tory Dux-or top of school but not politically correct to say so- best often only counts in sport) then Tory got all dolled up for her Yr 6 farewell dinner. This is a big thing here as you go straight to high school after yr 6. Then all the really good bits started happening like Christmas!!!! Yeah made even better by the visiting royalty of Strahlovnia! Putting out Santa's beer and lollies (sorry Michelle but he...

Wow, now I am acting like you lot and not posting on my blog! Seriously though, we are moved in and back on line (sort of-dial up). If there are no photos here it is because it just took way to long. This place is good, on the water, lots of space and a whole lot of skeeters too! Apparently those before fed the birds so seems to be a few of those hanging out for a feed as well. They weren't disappointed I am such a sucker for a pretty feather! Here is the house from the creek: The creek from the house: BBQ Duck

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...

Ok so nothing exciting has happened here other than getting a tow bar put on the car and ordering a trailer. stay tuned for pics of the trailer. Oh and you could have quit reading when you read the title,-It did say boring! We did get to catch a bit of nature watching in over the past week. Boris caught this rare footage of the Austrascarius Uglius* eating its rare prey the bogonius mothicus: As well as one Willie wag tail trying to chase a way a kookaburra from the netball hoop. Merry merry king of the bush indeed! Laugh kookaburra laugh! And because I can't get enough sunrise pics, here is another for you have a great week everyone! *M ore commonly known as the Mommius Screamius

Today was another good day at the Williams estate! Did nothing but a read on the lounge and a bush/beach walk in the netional park. Today we went to Scottish Rocks. We are hoping to hit all the little hiking trails before summer is over. We are not doing any serious gardening at present as it seems as if we will be moving soon. The vegies are fine in their pots and can wait a while befor they have to go in the ground. Still hoping to be able to walk to beach,shops , school etc...Whilst moving is a pain in the arse, change is always exciting. Here are some photos from our days outing plus a dolphin and sunrise shot from yesterday. Me and Girls Scottish Rocks and here are a couple from my walk on Saturday: