River Trip

We have had some very hot weather here over the past week.  Fortunately a cool change came in yesterday and today was much nicer.  Today I was invited to go on a fishing trip for the morning.  I wasn't going to fish but to just hang around.  We had a great time and I took lots of photographs, some of which are shown below.

At one stage I noticed this little grey thing running along and closer inspection revealed it to be a crab, it was extremely small and was indeed running sideways.

As the fishing was winding up, the two of us not fishing (there were four in all, two fishing, two not) started to wander along the waterline and the surrounding rocks.  I found little snails clinging to the rocks which were tidally submerged and the other person found little purple flowers growing in the sand between the dry rocks.

Finally, as we were leaving, a pelican (dubbed 'Percival') swam by.

A great start to the new year!

Water, Water, Everywhere...

It has been raining a lot recently.  It is also cold and at the moment blowing a gale.  Sewing machine wise there has been nothing recently and that overlocker is still doing my head in.  Anyhow, a few weeks ago I seem to remember promising to upload pictures of water droplets.  Below is that promise.

In case you're wondering, the first picture is water droplets on cactus spikes.  It has the longest spikes I've ever seen and I was rather anxious about doing my camera lens an injury with one.

Flowers

A few weeks ago I went out with my friend B.  I took many photos.  I have attached quite a few here, as an Easter theme.

This garden was fabulous, lots of lovely roses with littler plants in between, like the daisies above.  The roses were amazing, hundreds of blooms in an assortment of colours and shapes.  Sadly my camera is on its way out and doesn't like focusing all that much, often in an attempt to get my camera to focus I'd move it and not notice.  I ended up with some interesting photos because of it!

I don't think I have ever seen so many gum trees so tall.  They were incredible and appeared to stretch never-ending to the sky.  Up in their canopy many parrots and other birds fossicked, showering the unwary in pieces of tree.  I took quite a few pictures of these trees but this is the only one I can find at the moment.

Wherever you are, have a happy and safe Easter!

Weekend

Some photographs from Sunday.

The lighting wasn't overly good sadly!

Mother and baby.  They are those funny sheep that don't need shearing.  They shed their coat as can be seen by the mother's raggedy appearance.

The beautiful Red-Back Spider.  Deadly but beautiful.

And a stunning sunset.