tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44310066341157246012024-03-14T15:14:53.809+11:00Travels with a Tick MagnetThis started covering our trips to North-Eastern NSW (2011) and South Australia (2012). It will include later trips in our efforts to visit every town in NSW and will be updated as we go .Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-58028446503444570752023-03-07T13:04:00.003+11:002023-03-07T13:09:08.316+11:00Two real ends<p> I finished this blog with our last interstate trip with Tammy. </p><p>To some extent the type of trip that started off this blog finished on 17 February 2017 when <a href="https://franmart.blogspot.com/2017/02/dodging-bullet-mainly.html">the bushfire</a> started by Advanced Plumbing and Drainage destroyed our camper and came very close to destroying our house at Carwoola. However we had the trip to SA after that.</p><p>The final end came on June 18 2019 when <a href="https://franmart.blogspot.com/2019/06/vale-tammy.html">Tammy was put to sleep</a>. Nearly 4 years later I still get tearful typing this sentence. </p>Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-44829617808981275712018-05-28T07:43:00.003+10:002018-05-29T11:12:22.908+10:00Bird list for SA tripEmu<br />
Cape Barren Goose<br />
Freckled Duck (Big Swamp, Port Lincoln)<br />
Black Swan<br />
Australian Shelduck<br />
Australian Wood Duck<br />
Australasian Shoveler (Big Swamp, Port Lincoln)<br />
Pacific Black Duck<br />
Grey Teal<br />
Chestnut Teal<br />
Pink-eared Duck<br />
Australasian Grebe<br />
Hoary-headed Grebe<br />
Australasian Gannet (Whalers Way)<br />
Little Pied Cormorant<br />
Great Cormorant<br />
Little Black Cormorant<br />
Pied Cormorant<br />
Black-faced Cormorant<br />
Australasian Darter<br />
Australian Pelican<br />
Great Egret (Glenelg and Thompson's Beach)<br />
White-faced Heron<br />
Little Egret (Thompsons Beach)<br />
Australian White Ibis<br />
Straw-necked Ibis (McLaren Vale)<br />
Royal Spoonbill (St Kilda)<br />
Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Port Noarlunga)<br />
Brown Goshawk<br />
Black Kite<br />
Black-shouldered Kite (Australian)<br />
Swamp Harrier (St Kilda)<br />
Wedge-tailed Eagle<br />
Whistling Kite<br />
White-bellied Sea-Eagle<br />
Australian Spotted Crake (6, St Kilda)<br />
Australasian Swamphen<br />
Dusky Moorhen<br />
Black-tailed Nativehen<br />
Eurasian Coot<br />
Pied Stilt<br />
Banded Stilt (100s St Kilda)<br />
Red-necked Avocet<br />
Australian Pied Oystercatcher<br />
Sooty Oystercatcher<br />
Masked Lapwing<br />
Red-capped Plover<br />
Red-kneed Dotterel<br />
Curlew Sandpiper (St Kilda)<br />
Red-necked Stint<br />
Silver Gull<br />
Pacific Gull<br />
Fairy Tern (Little Douglas)<br />
Caspian Tern<br />
Crested Tern<br />
Rock Dove<br />
Spotted Dove<br />
Brush Bronzewing<br />
Crested Pigeon<br />
Sacred Kingfisher (Coffin Bay)<br />
Southern Boobook (Torrens Linear Park)<br />
Nankeen Kestrel<br />
Brown Falcon<br />
Galah<br />
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo<br />
Long-billed Corella (Torrens Linear Park)<br />
Rock Parrot (Dutton Bay)<br />
Australian Ringneck<br />
Red-rumped Parrot<br />
Crimson Rosella (Adelaide Rosella)<br />
Eastern Rosella<br />
Musk Lorikeet (Torrens Linear Park)<br />
Rainbow Lorikeet<br />
Superb Fairywren<br />
White-winged Fairywren (Whyalla Wetland)<br />
fairywren sp.<br />
Noisy Miner<br />
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (Salt lakes North of Coles Point)<br />
Red Wattlebird<br />
Singing Honeyeater<br />
White-plumed Honeyeater<br />
New Holland Honeyeater<br />
Shy Heathwren (Dutton Bay)<br />
Brown Thornbill<br />
Inland Thornbill (Dutton Bay<br />
Dusky Woodswallow<br />
Grey Butcherbird<br />
Australian Magpie<br />
Grey Currawong<br />
Black-faced Cuckooshrike<br />
Grey Shrikethrush<br />
Willie Wagtail<br />
Grey Fantail<br />
Magpie-lark<br />
Australian Raven<br />
Little Raven<br />
White-winged Chough<br />
Eurasian Skylark<br />
Welcome Swallow<br />
Silvereye<br />
Common Blackbird<br />
Common Starling<br />
House Sparrow<br />
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An alert reader will notice that there is no mention of Common Myna in the list. I have raised this on the birding-aus email group and have been advised, by various members of the group, of the following:<br />
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<li>"The South Australian authorities are trying very hard to keep them out. Unfortunately the Victorian authorities are not particularly interested in dealing with birds that turn up in western Victoria."</li>
<li>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I collected specimens for the museum in the mid 1950s and when I left in 1958 they were a number of sightings so the might have died out."</span></li>
<li>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">There was one in Adelaide airport a few years ago - I think it was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">eliminated."</span></li>
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Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-34116303351337455442018-05-27T12:10:00.002+10:002023-03-07T12:57:01.559+11:00All things must endSo this post finishes off our trip to South Australia. It covers our last day based at Glenelg and the drive back to Carwoola.<br />
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Friday 25 May 2018</h3>
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We began the day as always with a dog walk. As this was to be our last morning walk and we had nothing else planned for the day, we made the walk a little longer than we have been doing.</div>
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We also changed arrangements by crossing to the EastSide of the Patawolonga and looking back at the reflections of the houses on the far side.</div>
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We then headed a bit North before crossing Military Rd and heading to the beach. On the site of what used to be Marineland. The Surf Lifesaving organisation for SA have their HQ here. The sculpture looked quite pleasant ...<br />
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.. but got to "interesting" when looked at closely.<br />
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<li>Why is the figure second from the left wearing a skirt? Is this a mother rushing to pull her toddler out of an unfenced pool? Could the designer not think of any other way to show the figure is female?</li>
<li>Is the atrophied right leg on the fourth figure representing people with a disability?</li>
<li>Do they now only rescue people by running? (To make the point another way, why don't they have figures swimming, paddling or in a Zodiac, which are IMHO the main business of lifesaving?)</li>
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They are still of course attractive images, and perhaps the last point is taken care of by the images on the building?<br />
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On the top of the dune the 4 experimental wind turbines are still present. They were all motionless today as the wind was dead calm.<br />
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In case you wonder about the strange blue colour in many of the photos from today, there is no need to panic. It is a natural phenomenon called "the sky". It was very enjoyable to not have solid grey cloud!<br />
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There were large mounds of seaweed on the beach!<br />
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When I first migrated to Adelaide we used to go to this stretch of beach as it was not heavily used. I had thought it was due to it being under the flight path for planes landing and taking off from the airport, about 1km away. Others thought it was because the punters had to walk ~100m through sandhills to get there, rather than parking on a road and walking 10m down steps.<br />
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A few bits of interesting public art have been installed along the esplanade.<br />
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Surfs up - only about 20cm, but it was up.<br />
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Some more reflections in the Pat.<br />
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As we toddled back through the 'burb we noticed that the baby hire SUV had gone - possibly making a delivery somewhere. In the same street the tradies were back, possibly even more than yesterday.<br />
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Being a nosey sod I asked what they were up to. It turns out they were installing a node for NBN Co.. No wonder the project is so expensive if it takes a mob like this 2 days and a minimum of 6 blokes to install each node!<br />
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Here is the total walk.<br />
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We then then put in some energy to packing a fair bit of our stuff ready for departure tomorrow and went for a stroll along the Torrens Linear Park. We used the opportunity to fill up with dieselat what we expected to be better prices than Ouyen or Wagga. I then discovered an establishment called Dulwich Bakery (apparently a chain in Adelaide). They did a Chunky Steak Pepper pie which was very good indeed: I rated it as a 9+ - the pepper taste could have been stronger and the crust possibly a bit moister, but it was pushing the envelope of 10!<br />
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The start was amusing seeing these horses wading the Creek: the leader stood in the water for some time stirring with one hoof and we couldn't work out why it did this!<br />
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One of my objectives on this outing was to photograph a Musk Lorikeet. They were most uncooperative but eventually I managed to capture this snap. It has taken a while to work out the pose of the bird because the red stripes are in a strange position. I think it has actually got its head twisted so it's almost hanging vertically.<br />
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After this walk Frances needed some retail therapy so was dropped off at Harbour Town and Tammy and I went to check cormorant diversity on the breakwater at Glenelg. All three black and white species (Little Pied, Pied and Black-faced) were present but neither Little Black nor Great.<br />
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Returning to the house it was time to load most of the car so that we could get an early start. This done under the supervision of the standard poodles across the road!<br />
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Here is a photo of the house.<br />
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After all of this I was pretty knackered so was early to bed. I couldn't seem to get the temperature right, and was able to worry about villains breaking into the car and stealing our kit. So a very poor night's sleep.</div>
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We were both awake at 0430 so got up, loaded the rest of our stuff into the car, took Tammy for a toilet patrol and were on our way by about 0525.</div>
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The road works at South Road weren't as chaotic as yesterday (no cops, for a start) but still almost incomprehensible. At least we got through in the direction we wanted and headed for the Hills. Eventually got on to the Expressway and as we approached the Eastern side of the Hills could see a reddish tinge in the sky. This got gradually more and more impressive (clouds do have some benefits) and Frances got this snap somewhere between Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend.</div>
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As a result of the camera being set on auto-flash and the windows being a tad grubby, other photos were not that good.<br />
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I drove to Ouyen, our traditional first stop 400km into the drive and then Frances took over. I dozed for a bit and then took a few photos. The aim of this one is to show the mallee growth form of the eucalypts, with several stems branching out of the ligotuber.<br />
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The road is called the Mallee Highway and here is a photo of a traffic jam on same.<br />
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I also took a photo of the display of fuel consumption on the car. It only shows 4 hours so the very low start point is where we were mucking about going on the very hilly and winding road to the start of the freeway. It is then quite stable.<br />
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As we got close to the Murray at Piangil a salt pan was visible: almost dry.<br />
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Despite this someone has planted a massive pistachio orchard around Piangil. It seemed to run for at least 10km and went well over the (sand)hills and far away. My guess is at least several hundred hectares. As the info page says " <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="https://nutproducers.com.au/pistachio-products/" target="_blank">The water from the Murray River provides the source of irrigatio</a>n." </span>Together with the vast expansion of the cotton paddocks on the Hay Plain no wonder that the irrigators are objecting to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.<br />
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On the opposite side of the river the paddocks looked hard to distinguish from the salt pan.<br />
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We stopped for a driver swap about halfway from Balranald to Hay where I took an image of the Bluebush between cotton paddocks. In case you wonder what a flat line looks like, check the horizon.<br />
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We had developed some theories about the emus changing their behaviour as a result of the cotton farms . We came across several groups of 1 or 2 in the first few kilometres from Balranald and then started to come into the cotton, near Maude. There we spotted a big flock: Frances estimated at least 20, perhaps 30.<br />
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Frances took over again just after Narrandera and I took a snap of the info display which is now really showing what steady fuel consumption looks like. I think the little uptick (low consumption) at the start is going through Piangil and Tooleybuc at 80km/h and the downtick is probably accelerating away from the driver swap!<br />
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Because we were both a little tired by this stage I decided to change our normal route on rural roads from Murrimbateman, rather twisty and wildlife ridden, and came into Canberra. The road works around the light rail project were appalling, but fade into insignificance compared to South Road in Adelaide.</div>
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We recorded some temperatures as we drove along: it was quite impressive to see how much colder the inland was. We'd heard a forecast maximum of 23<sup>o</sup>C for Hay but thought it ridiculous when we were at Pinaroo. However it was a nice sunny day and the forecast was right on the money.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Heading out on our dog walk on 24 May, I heard a loud clapping noise coming from the powerlines above our accommodation. It was a pair of Crested Pigeons which on first sighting were doing the usual chest-puffing tail-raising display behaviour. Then they moved closer together and appeared to strike each other with their wings. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">This happened several times. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I've never seen them hit one one another before and wonder if they were making love or war?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Moving on down the road a sight resembled the start of a joke "How many tradies does it take to ...?"</span><br />
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From the conversation we could hear it seemed they were working out how to tap into the power line for some purpose.<br />
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We had a pleasant walk around the suburb without any great excitements to report. After finishing our breakfasts we headed off towards McLaren Vale. I carefully (I thought) consulted Google Maps as to the route and we headed off towards South Rd where absolute chaos was occurring.<br />
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There were massive roadworks in situ (but of course no work happening. We spent about 5 minutes stationary wondering what all the Plodmobiles were doing- at least 4 were visible: a number usually only seen outside a McDonalds with a special on jumboburgers.<br />
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Eventually one of the plods wandered over and stopped cars in our lane from turning right on to South Rd (first red arrow in image). So we headed a bit up towards Flinders U and did a u-turn, blue arrow, intending to turn left onto South Rd (second red arrow). Also blocked by the fxxxh. So after a minimum delay of 20 minutes, back to Marion Rd and on to the expressway. (I have since checked Google more closely and that is where we should have gone all along: dooohhhh!)<br />
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However we have no idea what the problem was. There seemed to be more plodmobiles a little further down South Rd so possibly a prang down there.Why were the stupid cops (sorry about the tautology) allowing through traffic on South Rd but blocking turns from Sturt Rd? Given the amount of delay and the number of cops involved why is there no coverage of this in any media. Welcome to South Australia!<br />
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Basically the whole thing reminded me of the traffic jams in Dar es Salaam approaching the Selander Bridge (although the cops there were better organised and more helpful).<br />
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We eventually made it to McLaren- in time for lunch which was a pepper pie and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchener_bun" target="_blank">Kitchener bun</a>. The pie was pretty good, rating 8 on the official scale. They lost a point because it was all mince - no steak in sight - and the crust was a tad over-cooked so got a zero for that category. We had a look round the houses of the Vale but what we could see where all modernish basic dwellings so cut our losses and headed for Johnson Rd and the Pirramimma winery.<br />
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This is a long established family winery in the area and we have found it to sell pretty good wines at reasonable prices with no bullshit. They seemed to to want $5 a head for tasting (offset against purchases) to dissuade people just coming out for free booze. We weren't asked for coin, and did buy 2.5 dozen bottles so it wouldn't have been an issue anyway.<br />
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The vines looked attractive.<br />
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On our way towards the beach we came across some Ibis posing nicely.<br />
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Its unusual to get both common species so nicely aligned.<br />
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Then on to the Maslins Beach area. Here is the walk we did.<br />
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This was taken at the Northern turning point and looks down on the beach where naked persons can be observed in warmer weather. There is a reason we only go there when its cold! The focus is the interesting geology of the cliffs.<br />
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As we descended to the beach on the Southern side of the headland a couple of dolphins were visible. Or at least their fins were visible.<br />
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Some more cliffs.<br />
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The lowest level on the cliffs was saturated with small shells. If this level survives erosion for a few million years so archaeologists are going to get very excited.<br />
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After another visit for sister-nattering we headed home down Brighton Rd. continuous traffic pouring up the hill towards Christies Beach.<br />
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We set off to do our dog walk aiming to visit the Old Gum Tree. En route we noticed this rather charming old-style house.<br />
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The fenced park in which the Old Gum Tree is located is the venue for a bunch of people to let their dogs off the lead. Several of them came over to check out the new chum (who was kept on the lead as she could escape from the park if given an incentive). This person is Mitch.<br />
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Here is the tree: now referred to as the Old Concrete Tree as it has been cased in concrete for many years (it died in 1906)!<br />
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This is its significance,<br />
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As we proceeded on I noticed this car. Don't bother going the through the traditional process to make one, rent it instead!<br />
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Unless of course you find the traditional process entertaining!<br />
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We found a few interesting birds and a bunch more amusing dogs on the walk, with the route depicted here.<br />
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Our main outing today was to St Kilda, part of the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park. Despite the "National Park" designation dogs on leads are allowed. Brilliant: may this thinking extend to less enlightened jurisdictions - NSW and Victoria I'm looking at you! It is nothing to do with the suburb in Melbourne nor the football team. No <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZ9NEpRRNZu6j8z4S4OybVoHLhk9-hQ9DBfRWz1J6ybkaPl1mOPgkBPEwkiDHzI3w7YSBdbujGBdEwjOs8EmZCemF-koU0cf41DETXhYe_PdeAZI8gRBXfd_Q4wGeASqMxsZQfJa_khIx/s320/12+Saints.jpg" target="_blank">caps</a> were found today.<br />
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The route basically retraced the last hour of our drive into Adelaide so Frances got a few pix of the works on the Expressway.<br />
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Once at St Kilda we were initially disappointed at the bird life in the salt lagoons. There were many gulls including this lot on some encrusted foam but not much else.<br />
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Then we got to look at the sea water, To say there were heaps of birds would be a large understatement. We estimated 1000 Black Swans, 500 each of Pacific Black Ducks and Grey Teal.<br />
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This flock of Royal Spoonbills contained 67 birds.<br />
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I estimated that overall there were 200 Pied Stilt and 60 Banded Stilts.<br />
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Here are some Banded Stilts ..<br />
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.. with, in the bottom of the image, a Curlew Sandpiper.<br />
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Our total bird list for this site is <a href="https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45945011" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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We wandered of to the <a href="https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45946074" target="_blank">North end of the village</a> and enjoyed seeing a few Red-kneed Dotterel and (Bird of the Day perhaps?) 6 Australian Spotted Crakes. Although the crakes kept going back into the scrub I was confident I saw two groups of 3 birds of this species. We couldn't go as far into the scrub as I would have liked as it ran into the private salt fields.<br />
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Next stop was the Mangrove walk which ended - after about 600m of boardwalk - ata lookout over the Inlet. Here are some Royal Spoonbills, with some mangrove leaves in the foreground.<br />
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A couple of snaps of aspects of the mangroves.<br />
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When Frances was getting the pass for the mangroves she picked up a leaflet for the whole Sanctuary area, put out by Birdlife SA. They reckoned the best area was Thompson Beach , about 50km North of St Kilda. We decided to invest the time and diesel and pointed the Pajero in that direction. The map was pretty crappy as the road they showed coming off the highway did not in fact reach the highway. Fortunately the Sanctuary was shown on notices on the highway and we found our way.<br />
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We started by following one of their trails though the bush with fruiting Sea Box (<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><i>Alyxia buxifolia</i></span>) ...<br />
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.. and Quandong (<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><i>Santalum acuminatum</i></span>)<br />
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Then we got to see the sea and the shorebirds, Unfortunately the tide was out, but my telescope removed most of the problem.<br />
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Many (~400) more Banded Stilts and ~30 Great Egrets.<br />
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Next time we're in Adelaide we must come back nearer to high tide.<br />
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A steady drive back to the house - about an hour and a quarter, not bad for such a great site.<br />
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Our first outing was around the North Glenelg area, starting with a crossing of the Sturt River(possibly more properly known as the Sturt Stormwater Drain!<br />
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Getting back towards the house we detected a smell of cooking. It turns out we were approaching Meals on Wheels Central! I have always thought of the meals being cooked in some industrial setting rather than a converted dwelling!<br />
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A pretty creeper on a fence.<br />
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Today was slated for an explore of the Northern parts of Adelaide. We started by going to the Central Market where various goodies were acquired and then headed for Gaganis Bros in West Hindmarsh, purveyors of ethnic foodstuffs, While Frances went in to stock up on spices and the such like Tammy and I headed for a cemetery at the end of Bacon St,</div>
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It was on the Torrens Linear Park. At this point the River looked very unappealing. I recall someone once saying they didn't mind green water, at least something's living in there: it was the black water they didn't trust! This looked like many of the klongs in Bangkok: equal parts of water, sewage and spilt fuel!<br />
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My eye was caught by the word Gallipolli on this headstone. I then realised this poor bloke died on the first day of landings. A better motto might be "For King, Empire and Kitchener's ego."<br />
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Here is the total headstone. There appear to be 8 members of the Shaw family commemorated on it: the soldier (presumably buried somewhere on the Peninsula); his parents (who both lived quite long lives); their 4 other children (who died at 2 years, 2 of them at 9 months and 6 years) and a lady called Samantha (presumably the wife's mother) who lasted until 101!<br />
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After our family regrouped we headed off to Port Adelaide. We had been told that there were a lot of old houses still standing in the Semaphore area and went to have a look at them. As with Glenelg there were indeed some nice old houses around as well as some new ones. Generally the area looked quite prosperous. Continuing with the theme of concern about my mental health, I quite liked the area after 10 minutes exposure. I'm not sure that we'd be allowed to live there however as I can't pronounce the phrases "John Cahill" or "Russell Ebert" without chundering. (For those non-Croweaters reading this, they were star players for the Port Adelaide Australian Rules team, and thus worshipped in the area.)<br />
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The Port Visitors Information Centre was in the former Police Station. A very nice building with a very helpful lady therein.<br />
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We did a short walk around this area, where a lot of the old buildings still exist.<br />
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The window designs in that one were intriguing.<br />
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There is a lot of artistic 'stuff' around the area. This alley went into an area behind the VIC, which seemed to be the hub of the Port Adelaide Festival.<br />
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Judging by the rainbow pattern on the face of the person being carried in the following graffiti I'd hazard a guess that this is something to do with marriage equality!<br />
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The next few images are of works inside the VIC. This first one is the "Port River Ceramic Healing Mural" and was created by 30 members of the local community for Sorry Week in 2001.<br />
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The Ship's Cats date from the 2015 Port Festival.<br />
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I don't know any more about this statue of a dolphin (these animals seem to be big business with tours on the River to see them).<br />
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Here's the River.<br />
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This area on the banks of the River is where buskers gather on a Sunday afternoon. I haven't worked out the meaning of the graffiti!<br />
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We returned to Semaphore where Sotos Fish Shop was (IOHO correctly) advised as the best source of fish and chips, Another serve of Whiting, taken and eaten looking at the dunes.<br />
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It appeared this is a popular strategy as several other folk were seen carrying parcels of butchers paper, and the nearby garbage bin had a lot of this material in it when I added ours! The most organised were the folk in the next car to us who had brought along a squeeze bottle of tomato sauce!<br />
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We walked along the beach and up and down the jetty.<br />
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The war memorial at the land end of the jetty.<br />
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The lady at the VIC had commented about the Palais which is adjacent to the jetty. A nice looking building but note the sign advertising "Pokies": no wonder various politicians in SA have made a reputation campaigning against these blights.<br />
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After a brief pause at the house I dropped Frances off for some more sister-nattering and went for a walk to Hallett Cove Conservation Park.<br />
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The cliffs here are pretty good and show much evidence of folding.<br />
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A bonus was finding a pair of Nankeen Kestrels roosting on ledges on another cliff. This is the female ..<br />
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... and here is the male.<br />
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The Park is based around an eroded amphitheatre with the Sugarloaf as the best known feature.<br />
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I'm surprised that the victim industry (or the boardwalk building industry) haven't demanded that the boardwalks be made wheelchair friendly!<br />
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A more panoramic view of the amphitheatre.<br />
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A very pleasant meal with the sisters. As we drove into Alison St we were surprised to see road works. A group of guys in his vis and reflective vests doing something to the road blocks which reduce speed in the street, About an hour later there was a strange mechanical noise, which initially raised concerns about the house infrastyructure going pear shaped. However it seemed to be coming from outside. The road works had moved down the street to a hump outside our place. They seemed to be painting the kerbs white!<br />
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And another day ends.<br />
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We went for our morning walk along the Patawolonga where a guy was having a paddle.<br />
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I hope he was doing laps since it seemed to only take him about 10 minutes to gt back to the start of the Pat. It was a very pleasant stroll and Tammy met a bunch of other friendly dogs. Needless to say SA Water has an officious (and IMHO grammatically incorrect) notice on some edifice.<br />
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My good mood got interrupted when my phone ceased to have access to the internet which annoyed me as I thought I still had lots of data to use. I went into Glenelg to consult Telstra about this and it turned out they had a nationwide fault (again). I guess someone has to make NBN Co look good.<br />
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Having sorted that I went for a walk to the Torrens Linear Park while Frances chatted with her sister. On the way I called in at the Orange Spot bakery on Anzac Highway. This provided the first pie of the trip, and a pretty good one it was . According to the <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/the-testing-of-pies.html" target="_blank">Official Pie Index</a> it rated a 9. I have only given it 2/3 for taste as it was a pepper pie and the pepperiness wasn't quite as strong as I like. Possibly a bit harsh , but it wasn't a magic pie like Quincan Cafe at Yungaburra, so I couldn't rate higher than those wonderful efforts.<br />
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As soon as I got onto the main part of the Linear Park it was obvious that there were lots of lorikeets around. They were definitely following the Bird Rules and hiding in foliage and/or blossom as soon as a camera was pointed at them.There is a rainbow lorikeet in this image somewhere!<br />
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I could not get a Musk Lorikeet to pose even that poorly. (My guess would be close to 100 of each species feeding in the various flowering gums.) The photo prospects were not assisted by the weather which was cloudy and semi-dull all day, with just enough wind to keep everything bouncing around.<br />
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This is the view from Henley Beach Rd, where I crossed to the other side. Note the well vegetated banks.<br />
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Here is the overall route followed.<br />
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I mentioned earlier the flowering eucalypts. Here are some low hanging flowers: I have no idea what species they are!<br />
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I was really taken with these emerging flowers!<br />
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There seemed to be less graffiti around than I remembered, but this sample looked quite fresh!<br />
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Here is the last section of the park, heading down towards the mouth.<br />
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The banks are used by horse persons. While this means the banks here are relatively barren the grass was happily grazed upon by good numbers of Coots, 'hens and ducks. Crested Pigeons and (boo hiss ) Spotted Doves were also feeding on something on the ground.<br />
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As I walked back I was VERY surprised to find this idiot driving along a cycling/walking track. He smiled at me as he went by, not apologising for me having to get off the track to let his fat arse by.<br />
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The main problem with this is the number of blind bends on the track. If a cyclist doing, say, 20kph met him in a twisty bit Mr Plod would have had a new bonnet mascot. Obviously given this effort there is no point in reporting cretinous driving to The Filth. The champion civilian effort thus far has been a guy who treated a red traffic light on Tapleys Hill Rd as a stop and clearly drove across in front of us, who were driving towards a constant green light. (<span style="color: red;"><b>Update: later in the week we visited this site on foot and realised that the light concerned was a pedestrian crossing about 2m <u>past</u> the intersection the car emerged from. Somehow this positioning seems daft, but what the driver did was quite legal!)</b></span><br />
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Recovering from my walk being interrupted the birds seemed to be kicking up a ruckus, with a strange buzzy noise appearing to be involved. On looking closely I found a Southern Boobook winning bird of the day. So I got some <i>Allocasuarina </i>in focus.<br />
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Following by getting the owl in (manual) focus but hidden somewhat behind a branch.<br />
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Less hidden behind a branch was a rat with wings. They were outnumbered by about 2:1 by Crested Pigeons but still quite a lot of Spotted Doves around.<br />
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At some point in the walk I came across this site:<br />
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The idea is that a phone or camera is positioned on top of the post and when a photo is taken it is emailed to some folk at the Uni of SA who can then assess the revegetation of the site. A most interesting idea, Here is the resultant image.<br />
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In the afternoon we went for a short walk involving Jetty Road. As tatty as ever.<br />
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Following from comments earlier about how the Port Lincoln area appears to have 'branded' (cough, cough vomit at that word) itself as the Seafood Coast we mused as to how Adelaide would brand its coastline. Frances came up with Culture Coast, which is probably a good idea of something the glitterati of Adelaide would sign up for. I preferred the Crow-eater Coast, although that reference to South Australians has probably joined bonza and strewth as a non-word.<br />
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As I had discovered the previous day that it was only 700km between the two residences we had a fairly relaxed packing of the car and it was close to daylight as we drove away from Vandy's Shack at 7:15.No kangaroos were harmed during the drive to Port Lincoln where we hung a left and headed for Port Augusta. I was able to spot these cultural artefacts on the edge of the town as we headed North.<br />
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Traffic was very light: on several occasions I noticed about 20kms between crossing with another car, and I don't recall overtaking car until close to Whyalla. The country looked very dry and barren as we went up the road. Just about every vestige of bush has been cleared and the sown crops haven't yet germinated despite fair recent rains.<br />
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This colourful hillside didn't show up as well as I'd hoped, possibly due to the murky cloud. The weather forecast was "mainly cloudy": for the first 3 hours it was about 99% cloudy!<br />
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I had hoped to spot a sculpture of an emu made from rusty barbed wire but alas I didn't notice it on this leg. So we navigated Port Augusta and turned South, running past the Lower Flinders Ranges.<br />
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The road was a little busier than the stretch up from Port Lincoln. We heard a story on ABC News about how truckies were fed up with caravans driving slowly and blocking up the areas where trucks can park for the required sleep breaks.<br />
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Then we came up behind a B-double doing less than 70kph. Sure enough, in front of it was a large campervan (like a small Winnebago, although not that make) an in between them a sedan that wouldn't overtake even though a few chances appeared. After about 4km of this we passed a sign saying "Overtaking lane 5km" and settled down for another ~5 minutes of annoyance.<br />
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As we approached the overtaking lane it looked as though the 'van was going to speed up, but it then dropped back to about 80kph. As soon as it could the truck pulled out and passed the vermin, dropping back in quickly so we could also get by both of them. Frances looked at the van driver: oldish male, leaning across yakking to his passenger: no idea at all that there were a dozen other vehicles queued up behind him (some of whom probably had to wait another 10km to get past).<br />
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Whatever. We rolled on down the road and hooked in to the metropolitan area, taking the North-South Expressway. This was an elevated expressway for a few kilometres and then dropped down to the usual narrow, crowded South Road with a subterranean expressway-under-construction next to it.<br />
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That clip from Google Earth shows the stretch covering both Port and Torrens Rds where the intersections were effectively closed. Work on the completed bit (4.8km) began in 2011 and it <a href="https://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/nsc/torrens_road_to_river_torrens_project" target="_blank">appears </a>the sunken stretch currently being worked on is to be completed in 2018: the rest of the road, from the Torrens to Darlington appears to be unfunded yet. So they have got a few minor issues (including massive chaos for years as every East-West road south of the River has to be overpassed; buying a whole lot of land and houses) to deal with. My guess is this will not be completed before 2040.<br />
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Whatever. We were fascinated in Port Lincoln to see the price of diesel jump 7 cents per litre between Tuesday and Saturday. The 'new price' 155c/l was evident everywhere until we got to Henley Beach Rd where it suddenly dropped to 146c./l at a BP station and then went even lower at Liberty. I'm sure that this is all kosher and fuel companies don't collude.<br />
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After a minor navigational snafu by me we got to our new accommodation and moved in. We decided to go for a short walk around the area to stretch our legs. An early observation, at the Sturt River (now a concrete drain) was that it was totally fenced off by SA Water. They really do seem to be a very authoritarian organisation, even by the low standards of water companies.<br />
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Then down Tapley's Hill Rd which was very busy and noisy. I noticed this place, which must be awaiting the due process to allow high rise to be developed.<br />
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It must have been vacant for years to get the rainwater tank into that condition!<br />
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We decided not to go as far as Anzac Highway but swung back into the 'burb. The noise from the road died away almost completely within a block. It seemed a very pleasant area with a mixture of old houses (such as the one we're staying in), new houses on a standard block and places were a standard block had been subdivided. This decorated stobie pole showed that there was a bit of interest in making the area attractive..<br />
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Getting back home we had tea and went to bed.<br />
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In my main blog I often put up photos of dawn from Mallacoota. On the 19th there was a more subdued, but still very good looking sunrise over Dutton Bay.</div>
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On the dog walk I finally got some colourful Samphire in focus.<br />
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A Pacific Gull in an archetypal pose.<br />
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In yesterdays's post I included a photo of some plastic owls, intended to keep birds off a pontoon. It is possible that this image of Dutton Bay Jetty illustrates what they are trying to avoid.<br />
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I suspect this boat is getting a similar treatment.<br />
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A local was engaged in squid catching, and appeared to be quite successful.<br />
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A colourful squid! (I usually see them coated in batter so don't know what is a typical colour.)<br />
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In yesterday's post I omitted the roof of the woolshed. Its actually pretty good as rooves go! It was originally built in 1870 and held up to 100,000 fleeces from the run which went from Dutton Bay to North of Elliston (~140 km by road).<br />
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Dew drops (or raindrops, your call) on the Allocasuarina.<br />
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I suggested on Facebook this might mark where the Saints aspirations for 2018 were interred. My expert adviser on matters to do with Moorabbin reckons the aspirations are much lower than high water mark!<br />
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Getting back to the house and Tammy displayed her usual level of fear of one of the local mutts who came for a visit.<br />
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Our main expedition for the day was to visit some parts of Port Lincoln. We began by a side trip to Blue Fin Rd, which looked down on the bays of Port Lincoln<br />
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The catalyst for visiting this area was to investigate - for some folk interested in weather - a hill in Kathai Conservation area. Unfortunately the obvious access route is controlled by SA Water who have posted notices with harsh words and dire threats on the locked gate. As the rest of the area seems almost impenetrable scrub we had to be content with this image.</div>
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We had been intending to be in this part of Port Lincoln anyway to do a walk to Murrays Point where we had seen some orchids previously and had read good comments about the birds. It was a very pleasant walk with a slew of White-faced Herons and Oystercatchers and then this nice aggregation of waterbirds at the Point.<br />
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Looking closely at the two shags on a rock and the one on the right, with yellow facial skin and a pale bill, is a Pied Cormorant while the leftie with black face and bill is a Black-faced Cormorant. Very obliging of them to pose in such an easy-to-compare way.<br />
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After a bit more walking along the Bay we cut back inland along this track.<br />
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Frances then spotted a yellow bird. A Western Yellow Robin! Note the grey breast (and also reflect on the nearest Eastern Yellow being about 350km away near the Coorong). My first lifer for 2018.<br />
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On the way home home we briefly explored the Coast of Kedillie Bay, opposite the town of Coffin Bay. Quite pleasant but we were getting weary on it. The best bird was this (again obliging) Brown Falcon.<br />
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Each tiom we had driven in and out of Dutton Bay we'd noticed signs to the Pig Farm. By chance we went past it on this outing. The pigs looked very happy trotting around their limestone coated paddock.<br />
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The late afternoon was spent packing as far as we could, followed by watching the harry-Meghan festivities on the TV. Yes I know, but it was interesting to see a big production number done very well.<br />
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No dead dogs were found on this walk. This Kelpie spotted Tammy and just laid down in front of her. After being thoroughly sniffed she got up and followed us around.<br />
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This shows (most of - the roof doesn't matter) the Dutton Bay Woolshed which is being restored as part of a tourist attraction. It doesn't look any different to when we were last here, 6 years ago. The adjacent campground was getting a bit of action from caravans so I presume the owners of the areaare doing OK.<br />
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As we strolled on the jetty the large dog accompanied us. This stroll gave us good views of a stingray swimming under the jetty.<br />
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We went back traversing an area where the seaweed had washed up. I liked the three colours!<br />
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After a bit more to eat we headed to Coffin Bay to do parts of the <a href="file:///C:/Users/marto/Downloads/Oyster-Walk-brochure.pdf" target="_blank">Oyster Walk</a> along the foreshore. We did the red bit (probably 3km return) before lunch and the yellow bit (2.5km) after.<br />
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It was showering as we went out on the morning walk so I didn't take a photo of the bunch of people sat under this shelter eating oysters. The deal is to wade out to the platform and capture oysters - presumably getting trained in shucking - and munch.<br />
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I presume the plastic owls are there to dissuade gulls and cormorants from crapping on the deck.<br />
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The walk is very good. Near the start point it goes very close to people's houses (I would be interested to see how close the houses were built to the boundary of the block) which could be very strange in Summer when the houses are fully occupied. A bit further on some nice mosaics of the usual suspects - starfish etc - had been set into the path,<br />
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I was rather surprised to see a Sacred Kingfisher still present. As we saw one on the afternoon walk, about 3km from here so I think they were different, birds they must overwinter rather than heading North,<br />
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A flower! <i>Hakea cycloptera</i>.<br />
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This was an attempt to get the <i>Hakea</i> flower and a 'nut' in the same image. At least the mulch on the ground is in focus!<br />
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We had to turn at the edge of town as the bush area there is owned by the Department of the Environment so dogs are banned. It is surprising how Council Parks are generally so much more sensible that the ideologically driven State Government gulags.<br />
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One of the new McMansions adjacent to the walk. Very architectural with a galvo kangaroo to the left of the deck.<br />
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A view across the bay.<br />
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Closer my Pelicans to thee, I guess they are aso dissuaded from the oyster munching area by the owls!<br />
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This is the scene outside the cafe from which we got some excellent crumbed whiting for lunch.<br />
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I suspect the waders are those provided for the oyster munchers. I am not sure how much they charged for the full oyster munching 'experience' (cough, splutter - I do apologise for that use of the word) but they were like unto a wild bull for the shucked items in the shop. $17.50 per dozen for opened oysters is about $7.50 more than is charged in Canberra . So they were left in the fridge.<br />
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The second stroll passed a good number of Quandong (<i>Santalum acuminatum</i>) bushes with very unripe fruit. As well as anything else, there were a number of very informative signs along the walk.<br />
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A view down the bay towards the sea<br />
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A clip of some of the closer dunes.<br />
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These monsters are, as measured on Google Earth, 10km away, which I think explains the hazy quality of the image,<br />
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At the close of the walk a Singing Honeyeater appeared!<br />
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First up was checking the birds on the water followed by a a short walk along the road.<br />
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This image is included to show the differences between Pied and Little Pied Cormorants. It's at fair range on a pretty dull morning but difference and body shape is size is very obvious.<br />
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The first flowering Acacia (<i>A. gillii</i>).<br />
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On the main outing our first stop was at Frenchman , a rocky area adjacent to Mount Frenchman. These spots are a reference to the French whalers who used the mountain (at 168m high, really only a hill) as a look out. Rock Parrots were there, living up to their name.<br />
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Here is the view North ...<br />
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.. and South.<br />
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There are many ruined cottages around this area. The juxtaposition of a real ruin and another cottage that looks to heading in that direction was intriguing. (As we drove past another complete ruin appeared on the far side of the better one.)<br />
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Coles Point is named after the family that farmed most of the surrounding area. The rocks held the biggest flock of Crested Terns I've yet seen on the trip.<br />
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This is Mount Greenly, a real mountain at 308m AMSL. It was named by Flinders after the fiancee of Sir Isaac Coffin who helped with Flinders expedition.<br />
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The rocks at Coles Point were the first that showed signs of folding.<br />
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The Correas (<i>C. pulchella)</i> were very common.<br />
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Once we got back to the highway we got to the first Lake which got within 80m of the road. That is proved by this snap of the car from the shore.<br />
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Looking the other way, here is the 'Lake':<br />
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It is more of a salt pan. I didn't test the surface as I have in the past found that if one goes through the crust the mud underneath is:<br />
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<li>black; and</li>
<li>very smelly.</li>
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The only birds seen here were a group of Shelduck vaguely visible through the heat haze. (Although only 18<sup>o</sup>C there was obviously a whole lotta convection going on.)<br />
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We proceeded North to this area we'd noticed on Google Earth, and dived inland along the route marked in red.<br />
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Here is one of the Lakes.<br />
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They were not all as dry as this but all equally well devoid of waterbirds. This intrigues me as to why there were no ducks or waders. It shouldn't be the salinity of the water as waders are quite happy in the ponds at the salt fields North of Adelaide and indeed the major salt lakes in the deserts of North of Port Augusta. Perhaps it is something to do with fertiliser run off from the surrounding farmland?<br />
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We did see some interesting birds around beside the road including 3 Wedgetailed Eagles, 6+ Dusky Woodswallows and a very vocal flock of 12 Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters. Finally on the outskirts of Kappinie we found a small pond with 7 Pied Stilt and two Red-kneed Dotterels,<br />
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On getting back to the Highway we went a little further North to Mount Hope. My particular hope was that is would have a bakery. Nope. About 4 houses and a Memorial Hall (or two).<br />
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One of the houses had a new looking car parked outside and my guess was the car was worth about the same as the house!<br />
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We took a further side trip to the cemetery. It was a bit surprising that it was 1.5km away from the hamlet, We couldn't work out why this was so: perhaps Eyre Peninsula corpses are particularly prone to zombieism? I'd expected it to have a lot of old graves and very few new ones. I was therefore surprised to find that most of the headstones were quite new - nearly all from the 1980s onwards.<br />
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It was also surprising, in view of the (apparently marginal) nature of the country to speculate on the likely cost of some of the headstones, The local undertaker is clearly on a nice little earner.<br />
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The paddock behind the cemetery showed that despite the apparent lack of rain whatever had been planted was growing well.<br />
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It was then simply a matter of toddling down the highway back to the house. As we got nearer to Mount Dutton I noticed that the vegetation had changed with a lot of quite large eucalypts rather than the very low shrubs of the coastal areas. Perhaps the country isn't as marginal as I'd thought.<br />
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To get a handle on that I looked at the <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=018171" target="_blank">BoM rainfall stats for Mount Hope</a>. Astonishingly they appear to have a continuous series since 1903! That shows there are to have a pronounced Mediterranean rainfall pattern with most of the 405mm average falling between May and September. 2018 to the end of April seems to be about on the median and they score over an inch (27mm) on May 3rd and are well on their way to median May rainfall.<br />
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Instead I spent the day looking at various parts of the area around Mount Dutton Bay West. This began with a walk a little further into the coastal reserve. Frances stayed at the house and I'd said I'd be back within an hour so I had to retreat at the point shown. The more Southern houses in the settlement appear on the track print, with the actual track starting in the Reserve about 800m down the road.<br />
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Today I noticed more blossom on the vegetation than a couple of days ago. First up, some eucalypt ...<br />
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... then a better photo of a Correa than I achieved on Whalers Way.<br />
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I was walking quite close to the water and noticed what happens when limestone is undercut. Rather focuses one's mind.<br />
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This is looking across the bay towards (I think) part of Coffin Bay NP.<br />
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The dark lines close to the far shore are an oyster farm.<br />
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Another undercut, with some well eroded exposure to the rock.<br />
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A couple of starfish were lurking at the bottom, indicating that this was pretty close to low tide.<br />
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I moved swiftly back to the house pausing to look at a couple of noisy small birds. I had trouble identifying them, but the way they cocked their tail made me think Heathwren and sure enough on checking references they came out as Shy Heathwrens: I think my second ever sighting. The other interesting birds were 2 Cape Barren Geese honking as the flew overhead. They are really quite common in this area.<br />
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I then went to explore the Salt Creek swamp near Farm Beach. It was almost devoid of birds, so I carried on to photograph what I referred to in an earlier post as a graveyard of tractors.<br />
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While they are pretty rusty many of them look to have inflated tyres so I wonder if this is where people store their launch equipment over Winter and these things lurch forth each summer?<br />
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My final expedition was to the Big Lagoon towards Port Lincoln. This is one of the few spots where others have ebirded in the area and we had noted numbers of fowl in the little remaining water.<br />
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In fact it appeared that the brown stuff is not mud but scum on the water, as ducks seemed to be swimming around in much of it. In some places a few Red-capped Plovers and Red-necked Stints were trotting around on it. We had noticed some Red-necked Avocets as we drove past ...<br />
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.. and there quite a few Pied Stilts also in attendance.<br />
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There were many species of ducks including over 100 Pink-eared Ducks: some are shown here with (front row left end) 2 Freckled Ducks. Not a great image but ..<br />
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This has a good mixture of the fowl.<br />
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For those interested my full list for this site is on <a href="https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45724477" target="_blank">eBird</a>.<br />
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On my way back to the house I looked down into Lake Wangary and could see a lot of ducks and swans but at 500m distance from the closest public access (and it being 1.8km across) there was no hope of getting a decent count.<br />
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Very few birds were around in the bush here for reasons not known to me. As we got back to the house (about 800m North of the Reserve) a pair of parrots flew into a small tree. On checking, they were Mulga Parrots. I returned with my good camera and got some pix. By that stage they have into a Pomegranate tree.<br />
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Our main plan for the day was to go to the Whalers Way South of Port Lincoln. It is the red line in this snip from Google Earth.<br />
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We called in to the Port Lincoln Visitors Centre and picked up the key to the Reserve, paying our $30 entrance fee. All excellent, unlike the street signs in Port Lincoln, which were non existent for the major roads I was looking for. However, we didn't get lost and soon passed Lincoln National Park: I'm sure Its a lovely place, but canophobic as are most places in which a State Conservation mob are involved.<br />
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We stopped by a historic marker to where Flinders found water.<br />
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This sign is at the entrance to the Whalers Way Reserve.<br />
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Dogs are allowed on leads!! I suspect their public liability insurance premiums (or their lawyers fees) are quite high: the gate is about 30 km from Port Lincoln and the Reserve is full of cliffs accessed by a reasonably rough road. This is not to grizzle but to suggest the Parks Services could learn a lot from this. Our route is very visible as the dirt road in this image.<br />
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Here is the first Inlet, Whalechasers Chasm. It should be noted that the wind was extremely strong, adding to the range of things that could go wrong (but didn't).<br />
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I think I have mentioned cliffs.<br />
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There were also flowers available. This <i>Melaleuca sp.</i> was flowering in profusion throughout the Reserve. It was attracting a lot of New Holland Honeyeaters and in one area a flock of Dusky Woodswallows. (presumably feeding on the insects that were feeding on the flowers).<br />
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I have no idea what this is, other than a white flower.<br />
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A <i>Correa sp</i>.<br />
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All vegetation here is quite low which on thinking about it is to be expected on a limestone area exposed to the Southern Ocean (next land going South is Antarctica) and prevailing winds that have possibly not been interrupted since:<br />
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<li>Port Elizabeth (South Africa) if coming straight West - Google Earth suggests 10,000km; or</li>
<li>Southern Argentina with a small amount of South in the breeze - add another 7,000km.</li>
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A flowering eucalypt ...</div>
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.. with interesting seed capsules.<br />
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Another eucalypt ...<br />
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.. which has dropped the flower caps on the ground.<br />
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A colony of fur seals (really sea lions) were stacking some zeds at the mouth of a cave. Even knowing they were likely to be there the distance was quite a lot - both vertically and horizontally.<br />
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The cave is at the centre bottom of the island in this image. Presumably there was some sort of fault which has allowed the sea to cut that channel.<br />
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Emus were available. This image also gives an idea of the height of the vegetation.<br />
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More cliffs!<br />
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It was suggested that the pool at the bottom of this slope was a possibility for swimming (presumably in Summer).<br />
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I think this swimming is contraindicated by this sign. There were quite few signs about beware of freak waves in this area. In WA they are a little more direct: King Waves Kill!<br />
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As we drove out a good flock (at least 27 birds) of Cape Barren Geese were seen grazing.<br />
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As we got close to our house (having dropped the key off at the Visitors Centre) we found 4 more geese sharing grazing with part of a huge flock of Galahs.<br />
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After getting back to the house I was going to take photographs of the Cormorants on the island in front of the house but the wind was so strong the telescope would have shaken continually (especially with my phone acting as an aerofoil). So I had a glass of wine instead.<br />
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I am currently reading Peter Fitzsimons excellent book about the Gallipolli campaign. Not pleasant but very interesting. So when I saw a sign to Gallipolli beach it had to be followed to see what was there. That sub-expedition appears late in this post.</div>
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For the morning dog walk Frances suggested going along the beach towards the main part of Mount Dutton Bay. As we left the house the resident Australian Ringnecks appeared. As the vernacular name for this subspecies is Port Lincoln Parrot they should be expected round here. </div>
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The weather was cool, approaching cold, and cloudy. So the mist made nice shapes on the hills.<br />
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A bunch of small parrots showed up and on reading my phone field guide I decided they were probably Rock Parrots. On getting home and looking at the photograph I have confirmed that ID, I think this is my second sighting of the species, the first being 6 years ago when we visited Coffin Bay.<br />
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A typical edge to the limestone at Dutton Bay.<br />
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I am not leg-ist. Frances spotted this snail munching on unknown, but surely prickly to the gastropod, plant.<br />
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Two Pacific Gulls. I have spent hours scanning the sea and shore at Mallacoota for this species with no luck. Here they are very common (see below for more).<br />
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After a good rest and some lunch we headed off in the Pajero to a nearby area Frances had noticed on a map. We noticed for the first time that the<a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com/2018/05/what-is-went-worth.html" target="_blank"> rock spat at us on Saturday</a> had hit the edge of the windscreen T and started a crack. Bugger, The road passed Farm Beach and carried on South to a settlement called "Little Douglas". I have no idea why it is so called nor have I noticed anywhere called Big Douglas! As we got on to the beach this vessel appeared and tore off into the bay. My guess is that the load is something to do with oyster farming, so the guys are performing a public service.<br />
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Using big tractors to launch seems popular.<br />
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At Farm beach there is an area full of these devices which didn't look in good condition: I guess being driven into salt water tends to lead to a bit of corrosion! I have tried to get a price on these John Deere's but it proved a little difficult: however I found a somewhat larger device cost around $150,000 which seemed a huge amount to pay for something you're going to chuck into the sea!<br />
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Just off the shore was an emerging sandbank which was very well supplied with birds. As well as the pictured waders - Red-capped Plovers (1) and Red-necked Stints (2) there were three species of tern: in ascending order of size there were Fairy (29); Crested (1) and Caspian (14). And of course numbers of Pacific and Silver Gulls.<br />
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A bit further down the beach, where Frances had picked up many shell treasures, were a pair of Australian Pied Oystercatchers.<br />
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Barnacles seem to be an issue ....<br />
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.. but if that worries you, just set up a chair or two in the dunes and relax.<br />
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Heading back to Farm Beach two emus were spotted.<br />
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Farm Beach itself was well endowed with seaweed and about 29 Pacific Gulls which were paying great attention to some fisherpersons cleaning their catch. A Kelpie was having great fun ensuring the Gulls kept alert.<br />
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As well as the seaweed there was a good supply of these fibrous balls. On consulting a book at the house they are some form of seaweed.<br />
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The track to Gallipolli Beach was signed and noted as 4km. As it basically went across the top of limestone cliffs it was in rather average condition, which caused a small lengthening of the crack in the windscreen. (This was a matter of some concern but it didn't grow much more so we waited until getting home before replacing the screen - which already had about 5 chips in it,) Frances noted that dealing with such tracks is why we traveled here in the Pajero rather than the Jetta.<br />
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This is Gallipolli Beach itself. It was used for some of the shooting of the film "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Gallipoll</a>i". Certainly it looks rather like some of the photos I have seen of the Dardanelles.<br />
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As we left we crossed with another car going to the beach and had a chat with the driver. He wondered how on earth Peter Weir had found the place to film. Its not exactly on a main road!<br />
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Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-33963525163082620752018-05-14T12:28:00.000+10:002018-05-15T07:38:42.488+10:00Travels with VirgilTo get the subject out of the way first. Frances has borrowed a talking book of the Aeneid from the library and gave it a whirl today as we drove along. I am not a fan: I don't really like talking bools in general as this was very hard to follow with a lot of forced rhymes. Perhaps it is because the translator (John Dryden) is from the 17th Century or perhaps it is my lack of knowledge. We got through 4 'books' in about an hour and a half: only 8 more to go!<br />
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We woke just before 5am and packed efficiently so were on the road by 5:30. Still very dark. Once we got too the Sturt Highway I started to relax about 'roo-risk although there were heaps of bunnies beside, and occasionally running across, the road. We didn't see a single truck for the first 40 km. The sun came up as we neared Renmark probably about 6:45.<br />
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The State border was crossed and the car inspected for fruit with no grief. The lack of grief is because Frances handles that: there are checkpoints on three roads but not on the many other roads that enter SA so I think it is just a farce providing employment for people in economically challenged towns!We rumbled on, looking for an orange stall but found none.<br />
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After Renmark the road signage was interesting with a couple of necessary turns off the main drag surprising me. To my great surprise we had quite a lot of drizzle on the stretch from Renmark to Burra: as most of this route is close to, if not beyond Goyders Line rain is not what is expected. (The line marks the limit of arable land and is named after an early Surveyor - the road is also named after him.) As we drew closer to the Hills quite a few kangaroos were standing in in the road, but we avoided them all.<br />
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As we got into the Hills a comfort stop as taken at Gulnare. This was at the oval which had reasonable facilities but very little grass. Not sure I'd fancy playing footy on that.<br />
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We popped out on Highway one and proceeded North. The hills (lower Flinders Ranges) were quite impressive as was a very long train. There were a few bits of roadworks (with limits of 40kph but no work being done on a Sunday).<br />
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After Port Germein views of the Gulf, and the Hills.<br />
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In the next image, note pipeline, which is I suspect carrying water from Morgan to Whyalla, and particularly the light in the sky which is at this stage about 20km away..<br />
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It isn't a UFO but part of the <a href="http://www.sundropfarms.com/facilities/" target="_blank">Sundrop vegetable farm</a>. This uses 23,000 mirrors to capture solar energy to heat or cool glass houses and to desalinate water from the Gulf. One product is tomatoes for sale to/by Coles. This is a much closer view.<br />
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In Port Augusta we crossed the tip of Spencer Gulf ...<br />
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... and shortly afterwards the Port Augusta Golf Course, graced with a family of emus.<br />
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This image of our fuel consumption display is interesting in showing the trip from Wentworth to Burra (flat line), crossing the ranges, spiky, and then another flat for the stretch from Crystal Brook to Port Augusta. (It continued to flatline to Port Lincoln.)<br />
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Frances took over driving just North of Cowell so I am to blame for the next few images. In Southern Australia the dominant architectural feature of most small towns is the grain silos. These are at Cowell.<br />
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Here is the oval at Arno Bay. Contrast it with the one at Gulnare above. I doubt if they will be visible but there was a huge flock of Galahs feeding on the oval - they may appear in the bottom right of the image.<br />
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The farms out here are pretty big: so are the tractors.<br />
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The roads aren't that big, but they are straight. As indeed they have been pretty much since Wagga: at one point East of Renmark I recorded 8.2km dead straight - very attractive in the dark with spotlights illuminating the guideposts for about 1.5 kilometres - then a slight bend followed by 10.6 km straight. And so forth.<br />
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When I talk about the silos dominating the town, here are the ones at Tumby Bay, just before the 10km marker.<br />
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So we dodged Port Lincoln itself and trundled up the West side of the Peninsula few kilometres to our accommodation at Dutton Bay. These Sooty Oystercatchers were about 20m from the house.<br />
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Here is a view across Dutton Bay.<br />
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This is the Northern tip of the little island just as evening comes in. I estimated about 125 Little Pied Cormorants and 10 Black-faced Cormorants (and in the better light of morning found some Pied Cormorants also.<br />
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After 2 days of about 900km, even with Frances giving me a rest I was knackered and in bed by 8:15 (SA time - 30 minutes behind NSW).<br />
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We got away at 6:30 which was pretty good as it meant we'd get to Wentworth in good time. The weather was fine for driving as we set off, with cloud and wind but no rain. Here is the situation near Jugiong.<br />
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Going along the Hume we noticed a car overtake us with no number plates, which seemed a good way of avoiding speed cameras and similar infringements on liberty. A little further we found said car again with the driver discovering that the Plods do not approve of such strategies and were having a conversation, which I suspect could do very bad things for their average speed, bank balance and future driving plans.<br />
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Autumn has arrived in Wagga as shown by the foliage!<br />
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Round about Wagga we noticed a lot of cars coming towards us in pulses which seemed a bit curious. An interesting roadside sign promised "Balls baits and bullets" in Narranderah. On the outskirts of the town we discovered the reason for the pulses: roadworks, fixing up problems that only the Roads engineers were aware of, at the intersection of the Newell and Sturt Highways. Only about 5 minutes of delay<br />
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Once out heading towards the Hay Plain we noticed lots of motorbikes, including many three-wheelers towing trailers, coming towards us. This continued for the rest of the day. (That got solved the next day somewhere near Renmark where a sign talked about Ulysses MC AGM.)<br />
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Out on the Plain we encountered, as tradition requires, droving. It was a tad un-traditional in that all the stock were Aberdeen Angus rather than Herefords or mixed breeds.<br />
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For many years we had crossed the Plain with no sight of anything to do with cotton. On both our last two traverses we have seen heaps. Perhaps we were a little earlier this time but it seemed to be everywhere in vast acreages. No wonder the farmers are in an uproar about restrictions on irrigators in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin. This image is a paddock of bolls.<br />
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Some harvested rolls: we crossed with many trucks carting these off to ...?<br />
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This snap shows: a line of bales in a paddock; the brown stems left after picking,; and a small amount of the whit stuff that always seems to accumulate along the roadside in a cotton area.<br />
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We wondered if the cotton was responsible for the dearth of emus. At one point we thought we might not see any for the trip but a few - perhaps 7 in total were spotted towards the end of the trip. There were very few birds around except Ravens. A few Black Kites and Kestrels, 1 Pied Butcherbird and a couple of Black-shouldered Kites.<br />
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In my view the Plain ends at Balranald. On what we saw, so does prosperity. While the houses still looked OK quite a few businesses in the town looked to be closed (permanently, not just on Saturday afternoon). On the highway out the other side we encountered another lot of road works that delayed us again. I know roads have to be maintained but no-one here seemed to be working except the driver of the pilot vehicle. All the others seemed to be sitting around talking about obesity - or at least demonstrating it.<br />
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This also gave the caravans a chance to bunch up and make driving slow. While this is a further tradition I had thought it had been dispensed with as on our recent trips vans moved along reasonably quickly. Perhaps the Hume Highway is different to the North South roads such as the Newell?<br />
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Somewhere around this point a truck was kind enough to spit a rock at our windshield. I didn't notice a new chip so carried on.<br />
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On getting close to Wentworth we called in at a fuel station in Dareton. It had closed but as a friendly local explained (there were no instructions on the pumps) there was a terminal on the wall that allowed one to get fuel. It merged that as is often the case in rural aral areas the advertised price for diesel was for the dirty stuff that trucks use and car diesel was about 2 cents a litre dearer. Grrrr. It then emerged (again no instructions) there wasn't a pay-for-fill option. However you could put in an amount of $400 and they'd only take what you used, with the remaining amount staying as an open order for 7 days. Trust us - sure wouldn't. <expletive deleted=""> them we'll get fuel somewhere else, of need be in Renmark the next morning.</expletive><br />
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As it turned out we got fuel in Wentworth as a servo operated by a human. After shifting minimal kit into our room at the Central Motel (which allowed the small dog in the room - HUGE bouquet) we went for walk around the riverbank. This is the Darling, which merges with the Murray nearby.<br />
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There seemed to be a lot of water in the Rivers:presumably there has been good rain from cyclones in the head waters of the Darling in Queensland.<br />
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A statue of <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/egge-john-12902" target="_blank">John Egge</a> an immigrant from China who seems to have been one of the biggest traders on the River. Or, in a flood, the main street of Wentworth which he sailed his boat down!<br />
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A memento of the old days. I'm not sure if this paddle steamer moves or is just there to look good!<br />
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Although we have been to Wentworth before I do like a good War Memorial.<br />
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After the early start and a longish drive an early and solid night sleep.<br />
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<a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/a-trip-to-several-bays.html" target="_blank">Back to index page</a>Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-72311463141830052882018-05-11T05:56:00.001+10:002018-05-28T07:53:15.837+10:00A trip to several BaysAs Winter (or at least Autumn) has finally arrived in Carwoola we are heading off to somewhere we hope will be slightly warmer. The broad plan at present is:<br />
<ul>
<li>12 May: drive to Wentworth NSW </li>
<li>13 May: Continue to Dutton <b><span style="color: red;">Bay</span></b>, SA</li>
<li>13-20 May: Lower Eyre Peninsula</li>
<li>20 May: drive to Glenelg SA (aka the <span style="color: red;"><b>Bay</b></span>)</li>
<li>21 - 26 May Adelaide area</li>
<li>26 May: drive back to Carwoola.</li>
</ul>
I'll put links to the daily posts here as they are compiled.<br />
Day 1: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/what-is-went-worth.html" target="_blank">Home to Wentworth</a><br />
Day 2: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/travels-with-virgil.html" target="_blank">Wentworth to Dutton Bay</a><br />
Day 3:<a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/getting-around-dutton.html" target="_blank"> Gallipolli is visited</a><br />
Day 4: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/the-whalers-way.html" target="_blank">Whalers Way</a><br />
Day 5: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/exploring-dutton.html" target="_blank">Around Dutton Bay</a><br />
Day 6: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/salt-lakes.html" target="_blank">Salt Lakes</a><br />
Day 7<a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/oysters-full-of-gold.html" target="_blank"> Coffin <span style="color: red;"><b>Bay</b></span></a><br />
Day 8: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/last-day-at-dutton.html" target="_blank">Last day at Dutton</a><br />
Day 9: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/transfer-to-glenelg.html" target="_blank">Transfer to Glenelg</a><br />
Day 10: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/i-was-rather-worried-about-jim.html" target="_blank">Around Glenelg</a><br />
Day 11: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/still-concerned.html" target="_blank">Mainly Port Adelaide</a><br />
Day 12: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/when-too-many-waterbirds-are-never.html" target="_blank">St Kilda and Thompson's Beach</a><br />
Day 13: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/adelaide-emulates-dar-es-salaam.html" target="_blank">Southern Vales and beaches</a><br />
Days 14 and 15: <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/all-things-must-end.html" target="_blank">Glenelg area and driving home.</a><br />
<a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/bird-list-for-sa-trip.html" target="_blank">Overall Birdlist</a><br />
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<br />Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-83707968983083370222016-08-14T15:33:00.002+10:002016-08-16T06:49:52.093+10:00Birds seen on trip<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 522px;">
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 175pt;" width="233"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Species Name</span></td>
<td style="width: 217pt;" width="289"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Comments</span></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Magpie Goose</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Plumed Whistling-Duck</td>
<td>Everywhere, sometimes in in huge
numbers</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Wandering Whistling-Duck</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Greylag Goose (Domestic type)</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black Swan</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Radjah Shelduck</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Green Pygmy-Goose</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Cotton Pygmy-Goose</td>
<td>Surprisingly common. <b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Wood Duck</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Mallard (Domestic type)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pacific Black Duck</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Mallard x Pacific Black Duck (hybrid)</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey Teal</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Hardhead</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Brushturkey</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Orange-footed Scrubfowl</td>
<td>Few sightings</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brown Quail</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australasian Grebe</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Great Crested Grebe</td>
<td>Tablelands Lakes</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black-necked Stork</td>
<td>Burdekin River only</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Pied Cormorant</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Great Cormorant</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Black Cormorant</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pied Cormorant</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australasian Darter</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Pelican</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-necked Heron</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Great Egret</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Intermediate Egret</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-faced Heron</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Egret</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Eastern Reef Egret</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Cattle Egret</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian White Ibis</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Straw-necked Ibis</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Royal Spoonbill</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black-shouldered Kite (Australian)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Square-tailed Kite</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Wedge-tailed Eagle</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Swamp Harrier</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Spotted Harrier</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey Goshawk</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brown Goshawk</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Collared Sparrowhawk</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black Kite</td>
<td>often in largeish numbers</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Whistling Kite</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-bellied Sea-Eagle</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Bustard</td>
<td>Two sightings</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pale-vented Bush-hen</td>
<td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australasian Swamphen</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Dusky Moorhen</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Eurasian Coot</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Sarus Crane</td>
<td>2 sites near Yungaburra</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brolga</td>
<td>Huge flock at Mazeppa NP</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bush Stone-curlew</td>
<td>Very common at Yungaburra. Heard
other sites</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black-winged Stilt (Australian)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Pied Oystercatcher</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Masked Lapwing</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Comb-crested Jacana</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Whimbrel</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Eastern Curlew</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bar-tailed Godwit</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Ruddy Turnstone</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Latham's Snipe</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Silver Gull</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gull-billed Tern</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Caspian Tern</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Crested Tern</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Rock Dove</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-headed Pigeon</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brown Cuckoo-Dove (Australian)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pacific Emerald Dove</td>
<td>Garden bird at Yunmgaburra</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Crested Pigeon</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Peaceful Dove</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bar-shouldered Dove</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Wompoo Fruit-Dove</td>
<td>Nesting at Curtain Fig Tree</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pheasant Coucal</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shining Bronze-Cuckoo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Fan-tailed Cuckoo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Barn Owl</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Swiftlet</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Laughing Kookaburra</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Blue-winged Kookaburra</td>
<td>Mount Garnet</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Forest Kingfisher</td>
<td>Common at Yungaburra</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Sacred Kingfisher</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Rainbow Bee-eater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nankeen Kestrel</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Hobby</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Galah</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Corella</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Sulphur-crested Cockatoo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Cockatiel</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian King-Parrot</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red-winged Parrot</td>
<td>Several sightings</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Ringneck</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pale-headed Rosella</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red-rumped Parrot</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Double-eyed Fig-Parrot</td>
<td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b>, Bird of the trip</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Lorikeet</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Rainbow Lorikeet</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Scaly-breasted Lorikeet</td>
<td>Several sightings around Yungaburra</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Spotted Bowerbird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Superb Fairywren</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red-backed Fairywren</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Eastern Spinebill</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Yellow-spotted Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Lewin's Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Yellow Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Yellow-faced Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Noisy Miner</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Yellow-throated Miner</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bridled Honeyeater</td>
<td>Endemic </td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red Wattlebird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Singing Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-plumed Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Dusky Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Scarlet Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brown Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-cheeked Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Blue-faced Honeyeater</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Macleay's Honeyeater</td>
<td>Endemic </td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Helmeted Friarbird</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Noisy Friarbird</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Striated Pardalote</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Yellow-throated Scrubwren</td>
<td>Lake Barrine</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Atherton Scrubwren</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Large-billed Scrubwren</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Mountain Thornbill<b> </b></td><td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Weebill</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Fairy Gerygone</td>
<td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-throated Gerygone</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brown Gerygone</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey-crowned Babbler</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Chowchilla</td>
<td>Endemic <b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b>, Lake Barrine</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Eastern Whipbird</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-breasted Woodswallow</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Dusky Woodswallow</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey Butcherbird</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pied Butcherbird</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Magpie</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pied Currawong</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Barred Cuckooshrike</td>
<td>Lifer Mather Rd</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black-faced Cuckooshrike</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-bellied Cuckooshrike</td>
<td>Several sightings at Yungaburra</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Varied Triller</td>
<td>Once on Mather Rd</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey Shrikethrush</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bower's Shrikethrush</td>
<td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b>, several sightings around Yungaburra</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Golden Whistler</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Rufous Whistler</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Olive-backed Oriole</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australasian Figbird</td>
<td>Very common around Yungaburra</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Spangled Drongo</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Willie Wagtail</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey Fantail</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black-faced Monarch</td>
<td>1 sighting at Curtain Fig</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Spectacled Monarch</td>
<td>Quite common at Yungaburra</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pied Monarch</td>
<td>1 sighting on Petersons's Creek</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Magpie-lark</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Leaden Flycatcher</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Torresian Crow</td>
<td>Everywhere on the Tablelands</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Crow</td>
<td>Western/Central Queensland</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Raven</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Little Raven</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">crow/raven sp.</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Apostlebird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Victoria's Riflebird</td>
<td>Curtain Fig Tree,<b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pale-yellow Robin</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Eastern Yellow Robin</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-browed Robin</td>
<td></td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Grey-headed Robin</td>
<td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b> Lake Barrine</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Welcome Swallow</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Fairy Martin</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Tree Martin</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australian Reed-Warbler</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Tawny Grassbird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Golden-headed Cisticola</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Silvereye</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Common Blackbird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Metallic Starling</td>
<td>One sighting of 2 birds in Garden.</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Common Starling</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Common Myna</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Mistletoebird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Olive-backed Sunbird</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Australasian Pipit</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">House Sparrow</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red-browed Finch</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Crimson Finch</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Double-barred Finch</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Scaly-breasted Munia</td>
<td><b> <span style="color: red;">Lifer</span></b>, Cairns Esplanade</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Chestnut-breasted Mannikin</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-31304110988632155692016-08-14T10:10:00.002+10:002023-08-28T13:56:27.473+10:00The testing of piesOver the last couple of trips I have taken to reviewing the pies I have had for lunch most days. On this trip I have also discussed the offerings with Frances and think I can offer a summary of the factors considered in arriving at a rating. I will also see if can attach scores to each factor.<br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>Basic taste according to style. This gets a maximum score of 3 points. If a plain meat pie has a very good taste it can score 3, whereas a pepper pie has to taste of pepper, and a steak and kidney pie has to have both steak and kidney.</li>
<li>Was there some decent meat in there or just mince meat? +1 for chunks of meat, -1 for only mince meat. On further consideration if it is only a plain pie, steak should not be expected so a score of 0 is awarded for mince in a basic pie.</li>
<li>What is the ratio of meat to gravy? Overall chewy +1, bit runny 0, could be eaten through a straw -1.</li>
<li>How about ratio of crust to filling. Solid crust holds the deal together +1. Crust a bit weak and collapses under the weight of filling, 0. Volume of crust greater than filling -1.</li>
<li>Texture of crust. Flaky and crisp 1. Burnt or under-cooked 0, indistiguishable from cardboard -1</li>
<li>Nicely warm indicating freshly made +2. Very hot indicating pie which has been nuked +1. Barely warm-1</li>
<li>Is it basically a home made pie or something commercial. Home made +1. Origin unclear 0. Anything involving cellophane -1.</li>
</ol>
<div>
Here is a score sheet using my memory of the best and worst pies encountered on the trip.</div>
<div>
</div>
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<colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 2962; mso-width-source: userset; width: 61pt;" width="81"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 3181; mso-width-source: userset; width: 65pt;" width="87"></col>
<col style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
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<td class="xl63" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center; width: 61pt;" width="81"><b><span style="color: blue;">Category</span></b></td>
<td class="xl63" style="text-align: center; width: 65pt;" width="87"><b><span style="color: blue;">Quincan café</span></b></td>
<td class="xl63" style="text-align: right; width: 48pt;" width="64"><b><span style="color: blue;">Chillago</span></b></td>
</tr>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">Taste</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">Meatiness</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">-1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">Gravy ratio</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">Crust ratio</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">crust nature</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">-1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">Warmth</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15pt;">Artisanality</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right">-1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl64" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Total</b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl64"><span style="color: red;"><b>9</b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl64"><span style="color: red;"><b>0</b></span></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div>
This pretty much comes out where I did at the time, although I think I gave Chillago a score of 3, knowing this to be logically unsustainable.<br />
<br />
A couple of years down the track I have decided that it should be possible to give a bonus point if acquiring the pie leads to an unexpected but enjoyable eating site. This was occasioned by the Poppet Head Rest Area in West Wyalong, which we would never have visited if we didn't need to break the trip to eat the pie! </div>
Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-39741177283612087422016-08-14T06:25:00.001+10:002016-08-15T17:51:47.722+10:00An overview and indexThe idea of this post is to give an overview of the trip and provide a consolidated way of navigating around the set of posts.<br />
<br />
Overall I rated the trip very successful. We avoided 6 weeks of Carwoola Winter, saw many interesting things and new places and got to 'know' Yungaburra a bit. <br />
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Bird of the trip</b>: There are three categories now.</li>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The prime award goes to Double-eyed Fig-Parrot as it is cute and was a lifer. The runner up award goes to Chowchilla: also a lifer and very difficult to see on the floor of the rainforest at Lake Barrine. </li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">In the flocks category it is very hard to choose between the Plumed Whistling Ducks at Hasties Swamp and the Brolgas at Mazeppa. The latter just win as the flock had dispersed somewhat when another birder had a go, and thus our sighting of the Brolgas was special. (Frances went for the PWDs as they were evident in more places</li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The ubiquitous award can only be applied at the end of the trip. Several contenders here, with the Gold Bogie going to Masked Lapwing. Seen everywhere (a fair definition of ubiquity) and often initially mistaken for some thing else, Second was Australian White Ibis, but it is not good to see the ultimate bin-chook win. Black Kite was common everywhere north of the Mitchell Highway but not on the first or last days. Cattle Egrets were in large numbers everywhere East of the Divide, but that rules out about 7 days. Magpie-larks were everywhere but in smaller numbers than the other contenders.</li>
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Vegetation of the trip: </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">In the "native" category I put the rainforest around Lake Barrine as the winner, with the regeneration at our friend's place at Daintree and the vegetation along Peterson's Creek at Yungaburra as tied for second place. The 'agricultural' award goes to the ubiquitous sugar cane.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Memorable moment</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">: Finding the chewed spud in the car, showing that the rat was in there.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Comment of the trip: </b>The two contenders were both at the caravan park in St Georgeearly in the trip:</span></li>
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I think the winner was<b> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">an exchange between two folks on the Monday morning. "In a weeks time I'll be back at work." "Good: someone's gotta pay for our pension!".</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">The second place award again featured two people but on the Sunday night. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">As the party was breaking one one of the members said "Well we'll see you later somewhere. I probably won't recognise you but I'll say g'day any way.</span></li>
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Pie of the trip</b>: The plain pie from the Quincan cafe wins out for being such a welcome change from the rather poor offerings of most places in Queensland. It was pretty good anyway, and would have been even higher rated if the crust had the strength needed to contain the huge amount of filling. The most memorable is a tie between the offering at Chillago - barely edible - and one Frances had at Proserpine which included a whole hard-boiled egg (also barely edible).</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Troppo moment of the trip</b>. Tinaroo man, with his strange clothing and undertaking the most tropical of activities, mowing a very extensive lawn.</li>
</ul>
In terms of statistics:<br />
<ul>
<li>We covered 8300km of which about 5200km were towing the camper. We averaged 11.7 litres /100km (or 23.9mpg). The average cost per litre was $1.246 (with a range from $1.299 in Mackay to $1.129 - including discount - on the outskirts of Townsville).</li>
<li>I recorded 194 species of birds (including 4 species of domestic waterfowl). 10 of these were lifers.</li>
</ul>
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Our overall route is shown in blue on a clip from Google Maps:<br />
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The dashed green line is our original plan which I changed as a result of finding out that there was a large RV Rally and "Henley on Flinders" event at Hughenden (marked with a red cross). I'd still like to visit Longreach (but not in Summer).<br />
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Following a question from a friend I realise I didn't complete the circle on the dog-scone situation. Here is the full story:<br />
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When he had her asleep he looked at x-rays and ruled out 1. He then looked at the serum under the microscope and ruled out 2. He then had a very close look at her teeth and found a couple of back molars were, in fact, rotten and were the source of the problem. He yanked them. <br />He also sent a sample away for culture and this turned out to show that the bacterium involved was a rather nasty variety that was resistant to the antibiotics he'd provided. It sounded as though she had got that from the dirt in which she buries her bones. He gave us some boss antibiotics which together with the yanking, seem to have fixed the business up. Although she missed the rat when she had a chance.</blockquote>
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The following is a set of links to the daily posts.<br />
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<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">Date</td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 95pt;" width="127">Area</td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 161pt;" width="214">Topic and hyperlink</td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">02-Jul</td>
<td>To Gilgandra</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/off-we-go.html">To Gilgandra</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">03-Jul</td>
<td>To St George</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/turning-back-clocks.html">To
St George</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">04-Jul</td>
<td>To Roma</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/to-tomato.html">To Roma</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">05-Jul</td>
<td>To Emerald</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/not-quite-line-in-sand.html">Roma, Emerald</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">06-Jul</td>
<td>Emerald</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/emeralds-are-green-and-shine.html">Emerald</a></td>
</tr>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">07-Jul</td>
<td>To Charters Towers</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/out-on-plains.html">Clermont,
Charters Towers</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">08-Jul</td>
<td>To Mt Garnet</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/a-tale-of-two-campsites.html">Charters
Towers, Mt Garnet</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">09-Jul</td>
<td>Mt Garnet</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/an-unexpected-day.html">Mt
Garnet, Atherton</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10-Jul</td>
<td>To Yungaburra</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/well-done-that-monotreme.html">Mt
Garnet, Platypus</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/a-day-of-peace-in-paradise.html">Tour
of Tinaroo</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/a-day-of-peace-in-paradise.html">Yungaburra</a></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">13-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/another-day-in-paradise.html">Tinaburra</a></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">14-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/where-to-stick-tube.html">Cairns</a></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">15-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/back-on-track.html">Atherton</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">16-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/an-odyssey-to-lake-barrine.html">Lake
Barrine</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">17-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/excellent-birds-several-tree-kangaroos-0.html">Yungaburra</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">18-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/plenty-of-places-to-go-birding.html">Yungaburra</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">19-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/ferry-cross-daintree.html">Daintree</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">20-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/ferry-cross-daintree.html">Daintree</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">21-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/the-slightly-damp-tropics.html">Yungaburra</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">22-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/its-journey-not-destination-barf_22.html">Innisfail</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">23-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/to-market-to-market.html">Yungaburra
Market </a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">24-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/tie-me-tree-kangaroo-down-sport.html">Mt
Hypipamee</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">25-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/mareeba-mareeba.html">Mareeba</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">26-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/swimwear-in-various-applications.html">Mount
Hypipamee </a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">27-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/a-quiet-day.html">Curtain
Fig Tree</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">28-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/a-reason-for-not-swimming.html">Lake
Eacham</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">29-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/rail-trail-part-2.html">Atherton</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">30-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/go-chilla-to-chillagoe.html">Chillago</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">31-Jul</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/a-day-of-birding-success.html">Yungaburra</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">01-Aug</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/a-less-good-day.html">Car
non-sevice Atherton</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">02-Aug</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/a-much-better-day.html">Lake
Barrine</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">03-Aug</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/a-much-better-day.html">Yungaburra,
Malanda</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">04-Aug</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/mareeba-gets-rehabilitated.html">Mareeba,
Skybury</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">05-Aug</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/tea-tree-kangaroo.html">Nerada
Tea, Car service Mareeba</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">06-Aug</td>
<td>FN Queensland</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/now-we-are-4-hopefully-not-for-long.html">Lake
Barrine, Yungaburra</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">07-Aug</td>
<td>To Alva Beach</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/not-looking-back-yet.html">Alva
Beach</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">08-Aug</td>
<td>To Mackay</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/how-to-think-well-of-gungahlin.html">Mackay</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">09-Aug</td>
<td>To Rockhampton</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/happy-census-day.html">Rockhampton</a></td>
</tr>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10-Aug</td>
<td>To Goondiwindi</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/on-on-while-one-feels-like-it.html">Mount
Morgan, Goondiwindi</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11-Aug</td>
<td>To Wellington</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/one-sleep-to-go.html">NW NSW</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12-Aug</td>
<td>Home</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/ding-dong-rat-is-dead.html">That’s
all folks</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Overview</td>
<td>Pie testing</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/the-testing-of-pies.html">Pie rating methods</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Overview</td>
<td>The Rat</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/the-saga-of-rat.html">A saga</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Overview</td>
<td>Observations</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/birds-seen-on-trip.html">Birdlist</a></td>
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<td align="right" class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Overview</td>
<td>Observations</td>
<td class="xl66"><a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/animals-of-northern-trip.html">Animal list</a></td>
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Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-88280981346426144252016-08-13T19:52:00.002+10:002016-08-13T19:52:27.339+10:00Animals of Northern Trip<h3>
Butterflies</h3>
Orchard Swallowtail<br />
Ulysses Swallowtail<br />
Cairns Birdwing<br />
Varied Eggfly<br />
Bordered Rustic<br />
Common Jezabel<br />
Red-banded Jezabel<br />
Common Grass-blue<br />
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Other invertebrates</h3>
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Plecia sp.<br />
Huntsman spider</div>
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Marsupials</h3>
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Eastern Grey Kangaroo</div>
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Agile Wallaby</div>
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Lumholtz Tree-Kangaroo</div>
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Red-necked Pademelon<br />
Musky Rat-Kangaroo</div>
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Long-nosed Bandicoot</div>
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Northern Brown Bandicoot</div>
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Coppery Brush-tailed Possum<br />
Common Brush-tailed Kangaroo</div>
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Lemuroid Ring-tailed Possum</div>
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Striped Possum</div>
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Yellow-bellied Glider</div>
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Sugar Glider</div>
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Feather-tailed Glider</div>
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Reptiles</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Red-throated Rainbow Skink</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gecko</span></div>
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Other Vertebrates</h3>
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Spectacled Fruit-Bat<br />
Little Red Fruit-Bat</div>
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Dingo (former, on the road to Charters Towers)</div>
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Feral pigs<br />
Echidna (former, on the road somewhere on the way home)</div>
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<br />Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-17866088840637731642016-08-12T18:02:00.002+10:002017-03-03T06:26:35.588+11:00The saga of The RatI have covered parts of this in various daily posts but thought it was an important enough part of the trip - in terms of the number of days it affected - to get a full post of its own.<br />
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The story began on August 4 as I delivered the Pajero to a dealership in Mareeba to get some important work done. The main street of Mareeba is limited to 40kph and there are quite a few pedestrian crossings. Each time we approached a crossing with peiople on it they'd point at the front of the car and look worried. I assumed this was because fluids were leaking (part of the reason for the work) smiled, and carried on.<br />
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The next day we turned up to collect the car (all work done) and the mechanic commented on the big rodent in the car. He then explained that when they were working under the car (on 4 August) they had suddenly found a large rat looking at them. They got a bit vocal at this point - to the extent that the receptionist went to see what was causing the fuss. However the rat disappeared and they didn't know where it had gone: was it somewhere in the car or somewhere in the workshop? ( I suspect that the rat was hanging 20 on the front of the car and that is what the folk in the Mareeba street were pointing at!)<br />
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It was suggested the rat was a <a href="http://rainforest-australia.com/giant_white_tailed_Uromys.htm" target="_blank">White-tailed Rat</a> <i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Uromys caudimaculatus</span></i><i style="font-family: Arial;"> </i>and had invaded the car from a rainforest. We had seen warnings about them around Lake Tinaroo and were aware that <br />
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"<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Giant White-tailed Rat loves to chew all sorts of materials such as plastic, rubber, electrical wires, leather, tin and canvas. They will often bite cans open and consume the contents. Some people even believe the rats can read the labels! They have been known to damage and disable vehicles too by biting through fan belts and water hoses." </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was not good if it was still evident. See also <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-02/are-rats-eating-our-cars/8315316" target="_blank">this story</a> from the ABC.</span><br />
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On the way home we stopped at a roadside stall and bought a sack of Atherton spuds (nice fresh spuds at a good price). This was left in the car overnight. on 6 August we started to pack things up and I noticed that the sack had been gnawed, as had a spud. Obviously Mr Rat was still in the car. The sack was moved to a secure area in the (rat-free as far as we knew, and still know) camper. The remains of the munched spud were donated to the bantams.<br />
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So we called in to the supermarket in Yungaburra and acquired some Ratsak. This was placed around inside the car the next night. In the morning it looked as though a few bits of bait had been nibbled but there wasn't a corpse. So we headed off on our way home. <br />
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Our first overnight was at Alva Beach. More Ratsak was distributed. On the 8th I inspected the baits and they appeared to have been untouched but a few rodentish turds were evident. As we got in the car to drive off Tammy started digging into the back seat: she knew where ratty was! Unload the entire car and there was the target between the back seat and the tray in the boot. Tammy was inserted but looked the wrong way and Rat departed for parts unknown.<br />
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So we drove off towards Mackay hoping that it hadn't chewed through anything. Never had warning lights been studied so closely. Of course, our noses were also twirching in case it had croaked behind some bodywork - in view of O'Reilly Law (which basically reads "Murphy was an optimist") it was bound to go somewhere inaccessible to die and subsequently rot.<br />
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On getting to Mackay without a major system failure or an olfactory explosion, I eventually found a Bunnings (Coles, K-Mart and Woolworths all failing to have rat traps) and they provided some suitable spring-loaded devices. Frances had suggested buying 2, but I got 3 to cover all parts of the car! They were baited with cheese and spread around the car.<br />
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On the morning of the 9th the cheese had gone but the traps hadn't fired. No ratsak taken. Drive on, to Rockhampton again watching the warning lights, and sniffing frequently That night I tried some peanut butter on one of the traps, which might induce trap firing. No siree! <br />
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By this stage I was beginning to get desperate about how to get rid of the damn thing. Suddenly I thought about using a glue trap. We tried a couple of spots on our way to Goondiwindi but they only had mouse sized glue traps which wouldn't slow this beast up. More cheese consumed in Goondiwindi but the next morning the Home Hardware store in Goondiwindi had some large, rat-sized glue traps. When I explained why we needed them I was asked to ensure I took the rat away with us.<br />
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So the next (last of the trip) night a couple of glue traps were put out when we set up in Wellington. A little after dark I looked through the window into the boot and the trap there had been overturned. On opening the boot area the rat was still attached to the trap. A couple of minutes of (I regret to say, enjoyable) violence then ensued with the result that the Rat was no longer a problem. Finally.<br />
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My belief is that it wasn't in fact a White-tailed rat but just a fairly large black rat (<i>Rattus rattus</i>). Alan Gillanders has subsequently identified the beast from a photograph, as a Fawn-footed Melomys (<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1;">Melomys cervinipes</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="color: #333333;">) </span>and noted that they can be very </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">destructive</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;">. </span></span></span>It doesn't seem to damaged anything other than munching some of a dessicated specimen which Frances was bringing home for scientific and artistic study. The damn rodent effectively messed up 6 days of our trip (and a potato)!Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-56734513551574495892016-08-12T06:46:00.001+10:002016-08-14T06:48:40.053+10:00Ding-dong, the rat is deadWith the assistance of a glue-trap our rodent companion was captured last night. It was then dealt with appropriately. A full write up of the saga is <a href="http://gonorth2011.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/the-saga-of-rat.html" target="_blank">here</a> and Ratty is there:<br />
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As I type, at 6:44 on 12 August at Wellington NSW it is well below freezing. Please explain why we left Yungaburra! Apparently the overnight low was -2<sup>o</sup>C. We forced ourselves out to start packing and completed this by about 9am and were on the road soon after.<br />
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The drive was basically a drive. From Wellington to (about) Cowra we were impressed with how green the country was.<br />
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In some places canola had been plated and was fully flowering, giving patches of bright yellow.<br />
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More yellow was evident from the wattles beside the road.<br />
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As we started to climb from the plains up to the Tableland the green-ness started to decline to the frost-burnt brown of a Monaro Winter. While there there was plenty of canola planted between Cowra and Boorowa it was only just starting to flower. This was a sure sign that things had been cool. Probably not a pleasant time for these sheep to have misplaced their overcoats.<br />
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At least the little lambs were capering well (although Frances noted a few in another paddock that appeared to gone to check on Ratty).<br />
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We got home at just on 2pm having paused briefly in Boorowa for a pie.<br />
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Memorable moment</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">: Swinging into our drive!</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Comment of the day:</b> None</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Pie of the day</b>: A steak and kidney item from Superb Bakery in Boorowa. A very good offering indeed. Everything well done. It at least ties with the Quincan Cafe in Yungaburra for pie of the trip. A little small so 9/10.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Troppo moment of the day</b>.I was so laid back that even a pause at roadworks on the edge of Wellington didn't cause me anguish. We were also well below the tropics!</li>
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Flabmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431006634115724601.post-68349529659472428652016-08-11T19:22:00.000+10:002016-08-14T06:46:56.997+10:00One sleep to go!The penultimate kip at Goondiwindi was pretty good, although hearing rain a couple of times in the night was ungood. No biggie however.<br />
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We were on our way before 9 and bought breakfast in the town. We didn't hang around much as it was raining again. I didn't even see a statue of <a href="http://www.goondiwindirc.qld.gov.au/visitors/attractions/gunsynd.shtml" target="_blank">Gunsynd</a> to photograph. The Home Hardware store did provide some rat sized glue traps: here is hoping!<br />
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In passing I noticed a sign for the "Goondiwindi öff-road race" next weekend. I'm glad we aren't in town for that revhead special. On the road I saw several trucks laden with buggies and in Coonabarrabran a bunch of utes with many trail bikes. Good we're outtathere. <br />
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The weather was basically horrible as we crossed the State border - surprisingly only about 500m past the end of the town - and drove down towards Moree. Lots of trucks coming towards us and quite a few caravans (all Vic registered) going, slowly, our way. The Newell Highway is after all the direct route from Melbourne to Brisbane. At one point we were held up for about 10 minutes by some unemployables talking about roadworks.<br />
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On the one time we had been to Moree in the past it seemed rather suave. This route took us through the industrial outskirts, so not suave. On on towards Narrabri. The country to the West of the road was MBF: Mind Bogglingly Flat.<br />
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Some lumps were visible to the East.<br />
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As we neared Narrabri they turned into Mount Kaputar.<br />
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A bit further down the road I noticed a flagpole and a bunch of brass plates on rocks. Surely a War Memorial. Nope done on the 100th anniversary of founding the village and the rail service to the NW. Interestingly they gave everyone's name and when they lived in the area.</div>
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I then found another plaque referring to Lone Pine. I reckon this is a War Memorial even though the pines seem to have died.<br />
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Between Moonie and Goondiwindi we saw a few signs to "rig ##" but no Lock the Gate material. Once South of the border this was a common message as we went on to Narrabri.<br />
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They had a War Memorial!<br />
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South of Narrabri the anti CSG message changed to protecting the Pilliga. Still basically sticking it to Santos and their ilk.<br />
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We wondered if it was worth stopping for another night or just press on. After an interesting drive from Coonabarrabran on the Google shortest route (with some rather wet and ordinary dirt roads) we got to Wellington at 3:15 and decided that (apart from the tiredness issue) getting home at 7:30 pm or later to a cold dark house was ungood. So we are at the Riverview Caravan Park in that town.<br />
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Memorable moment</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">: Posting our Census form back at Boggabilla!</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Comment of the day:</b> "Please pick up the mess." Apparently the owner of the van park at Wellington has a few 'pon my sole' issues. I assured her we would collect.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Troppo moment of the day</b>. Waiting for 10 minutes at road works, which mainly consisted of 5 fat bastards standing around talking. (In contrast in a couple of cases guys were filling in potholes, ducking out in gaps in the 110kph traffic: go figure the OHAS mentality! )</li>
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Here is the sign for the park in daylight.<br />
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The owner was a very conscientious guy and was trying very hard to do the right thing by the Census. He had thought that 4 pom backpackers were out of scope and when I said they were in, he went to give them a form at 7:30. He was astonished that they had already left - apparently the usual backpacker model is to get up at 10:00am (unless checkout is at 12)!<br />
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On down the road heading along the A3 towards Mount Morgan/ There were signs about "caravans take extreme care" and "roadworks 30 minute delay" but we got straight through the works. It was one of the more interesting roads I have driven but with chunderpooch in back, and a nervous Frances in front, I didn't have too much fun.<br />
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Mount Morgan was an old mining town which looks pretty well maintained. This mural is on the theatre.<br />
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Here is the railway station (now a museum).<br />
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We eventually found our way to a lookout giving a great view over the mine workings.<br />
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They had found a large ichthyosaur fossil in the area and we could have viewed that in the museum if we had wished. We settled for this indigenous depiction of it.<br />
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A rather impressive fig tree.<br />
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When we got to the lookout a Pheasant Coucal (aka Flying Haystack) flew off and got itself photographed and elected as Bird of the Day.<br />
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Some distance down the road we got to Banana Shire and then Banana township. The shire was named after the town <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_of_Banana" target="_blank">which was so-called after a bullock of that name</a>. Shades of Captains Flat! That explains the bovines on the town sign!<br />
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We crossed a number of small ranges, on one of which we were directed to pull over by cops on escort duty. This is about the most oversized load I have seen. <br />
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In fact there we both halves of the house on separate trucks! At least 3 cop cars were escorting them and we saw another just up the road: it will be costing the house owners a lot to shift it!<br />
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We took a comfort stop in Tamoor, with a nice mural on the bog.<br />
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I'm not sure how big road trains get, but this one, full of Brahman cattle, was pretty impressive ...<br />
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.. especially as it pulled away.<br />
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Our next stop was Miles, where we had planned to stop for the night. But it was, as expected only 2pm and we felt good , so after refuelling and taking a walk along Dogpound Creek (a more PC name that that on one road sign "Chinaman's Lagoon") </div>
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where we photographed some flowers ....<br />
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it was on on to Goondiwindi for the night. As an example of the daftness of grey nomads those in van 1 below were having a chat with those in van 2. Did they go over - of course not just yell back and forth!<br />
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As night fell the bugs came out. Some friendly ...<br />
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I retreated but Frances stayed outside and didn't get savaged.<br />
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As darkness really came down other wildlife appeared in the trees along the billabong behind our site.<br />
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Much quieter than the night before.<br />
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<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Bird of the da</b>y: Pheasant Coucal. The flock was again Apostlebird as we saw hundreds of them in groups of up to 15 once we passed Miles. On the way up it was from Walgett to St George (about the same longitude).</li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Vegetation of the day: </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Massive amount of lantana around Banana.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Memorable moment</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">: The house being moved.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Comment of the day: </b>"$4 please."the shop owner in Tamoor selling me a sausage roll! They are usually about $2.50!</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Pie of the day</b>: Non existent.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Troppo moment of the day</b>. Being deluged by bugs. It turned out this was barely troppo as we were only about 3km from NSW!</li>
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