Bats: several thousand. Belfries: zero

Quiet day.  Longer walk in morning

Bird of the Day:  Difficult, but Australasian Gannet gets the tick  For a flock, 20+ Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos monster the opposition.

Plant of the Day:  Deciduous tree full of epiphytes.

Scene of the Day:  River at Glenreagh with bats and old bridge

Art of the day;  Pre school at Glenreagh.  The gecko at the Aboriginal place at Corindi got considered (the art gallery outside was a tad stereotyped).

Typically Australian thing of the day: Towns putting on an event to support local community groups (eg Glenreagh Timber Day).

Maximum Temperature  18 Minimum temperature 10

Distance traveled  with camper  0  without camper 65

To your total non-surprise, here is today's dawn shot.

OK, shots!

On (what has become) our normal walk through the swamp we found a small lily in the sports field.  We tried to convert it to another species within the genus Wurmbea but alas it stayed as W. dioica, aka Early Nancy.

Getting back to the beach the customary Red-capped Dotterel posed nicely.

Presumably this unlucky lobster donated its tail to a hungry scuba diver.

Even bright pink birds such as Galahs can find somewhere to be camouflaged if they live in this area.

Look Ma, no lead!

Look Ma, no nose!  I can't remember what was in the pot originally but it was surely popular with our small friend.

Our plan for our final day in Corindi was to visit the small town of Glenreagh about 30km up in the mountains behind Corindi.  The drive there was very pleasant on a windy dirt road through (mainly) forested hills.   We developed a list of things to look at on the way back!

The town was somewhat busy as they were doing a Forest Day with woodchopping competitions and such like rural activities. We didn't go in there but did look at the statue outside the Golden Dog Hotel.

I suspect this is an extremely bad taste reference to certain events at Uluru.

This small house was typical of those in the villages in this area.

They were well supplied with fruit bats by the river.

The War memorial.

As usual a well done mural on the pre-chool.

This bit of the road was a bit rockier than most, but none of it was wide.

A good collection of epiphytes on (I think) a Red Cedar.

Back into the forest.  This image gives an idea of the lushness in the gullies.  The ridges in between seemed to be more sclerophyll species but they didn't look like the ones around home.

So we got back to Corindi.  These two images are of the Aboriginal Art Gallery into which we didn't go. as even if we purchased something we have nowhere to put it at home.  (We take Margaret Olley's house as a caution not an objective.)

The clouds were gathering as dusk fell, but there was nothing in it.

The final photo for today was Frances take on the sunset.

I reckon that, if we competed for spiffy sunset photos, that shot wine!

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