Tag: australia
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Sea Breezes in Warrnambool, Victoria.
The north east of Victoria is usually a pretty hot and dry place at this time of year. However there was a break of cooler weather around the 9-12th December, so we headed to the coast. We left the dry paddocks behind to find a bit of an oasis of green grass and cooler temperatures…
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Water Bowl Memories
Our backyard water bowls are a feature of our rather dry yard in summer with a range of visiting birds. Here is a mix of some recent attendees seeking a quiet place. Red-rumped Parrot visiting our large water bowl. The Red rump on this parrot is very apparent. We used to get good numbers of…
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Historic Bathurst, NSW
We did something quite unusual on New Year’s Day taking an 8hr road trip to Sydney, NSW to visit our family for a late Christmas catchup . The roads were reasonably quiet which was a great help. We stopped overnight in Cowra in southern NSW to break up the trip. It was a warm summer’s…
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Zig Zagging in the Blue Mountains, NSW
We visited our family in Sydney back in October on one special day we decided to go for a stream train ride. We had been talking about do this trip for some years and finally did it. A great family experience. Touring at the Zig Zag Railway near Lithgow. This BP 218 engine was built…
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Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park is Wonderful in late Spring.
Hard going for this young eucalypt growing in a small crevice on this large granite outcrop at Mt Pilot. View from Mt Pilot, looking NW. There are large outcrops of granite across the Park. https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/chiltern-mt-pilot-national-park These images were taken in mid October in North East Victoria, Australia. The Park is a well known birding hotspot.…
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Masters of Disguise.
Tawny Frogmouths are certainly an unusual nocturnal bird species. They are reasonably common across Australia although they are very difficult to locate. They can even be found in the leafy suburbs of our major cities if you are lucky. Their plumage resembles the bark of trees which allows them to blend in and they will…
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The Joys of Train Travel
We have had a wonderful time experiencing slow touring between Wangaratta and Sydney, visiting family. It’s an 8hr journey, with a rather slow section between Cootamundra and Harden as the train meanders through the quiet countryside of southern NSW. We passed through a rural landscape that in parts could be English, with weeping willows along…
Walking Glenrowan and Beyond 