Big Thirsty Aussies

From our seats on the South Coast Sunrise April 6 I took a great birthday sunrise walk finishing up with a swim here in the Moona had the place to myself other  than birds and some dolphins. The oysters down the back Dying Easter eggs. We had a great Easter up in the Highlands at Jo's place, Autumn is good there.                                                                          an interesting mushroomy thing Pete, Bella and Lily came to visit and the weather turned out fabulous and we had a great walk from Greenfields Beach to Hyams, followed by a great swim in water still crystal clear and quite warm. Some pics courtesy of "Snorkel Cam" and Pete Wrapped up the day with a bonfire down the back. ...

Beach was crowded again this morning! Here are some shots from our sunrise Saturday ... and I leave you with "birdsong"

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 enoug...