Bird of the Day:
Brahminy Kite: near South end of range and very attractive. Eastern Reef Egret unknown in ACT so peeks
behind the curtain, but boring egret so does not advance.
Plant of the Day:
Pigface
Scene of the Day;
Looking down the beach from Corindi to Arrawatta.
Art of the day; Sikh
temple – notably the equine statues – at Woolgoolga gets the gold (plated)
tick. Water tower with whales at
Woolgoolga has previous form so just gets a mentions..
Typically Australian thing of the day: Tradesmen playing their radios (and in
fairness, the guys fixing the amenities block kept the volume down).
Maximum Temperature 21 Minimum temperature 10
Distance traveled
with camper 0 without camper 40
The views at dawn out to sea were magnificent. All they needed was a few whales!
A Rainbow Lorikeet gets to work on a flower!
Not quite whales but these were a few of a very large pod of dolphins.
Arty-farty palm'n'pine silhouette photo
Acacia sp???
On the way back through the heathy back of the dunes we found a small pond with some opening Water Lilies. Unfortunately I never went back in the middle of the day to get an image of them fully open.
Shortly after this Tammy found an old fish spine with a bit of meat still on it. I wasn't keen on her eating this so tried to take it away from her. (She is not keen on the word "drop".)
Looking closely shows that her back feet are about 5cm off the ground! Do you need any other definition of the word 'terrier'? Eventually she had to take a breath.
Now that smells really interesting!
Our trip for the day was to the Mulloway/Woolgoolga area where we stayed
in the past.
We called in at Mulloway first, parking near the small heathland, part of the Coffs Regional Park so not canophobic as is anything run by the Office of Environment and Heritage. The area was rather quieter, both from the view of birdsong and, more metaphorically, in terms of flowers. I think this is a Boronia ...
and this is certainly
Banksia spinulosa.
Crabs-r-us on the beach.
Before we left the beach we experimented with Tammy of the lead for a a few minutes. It worked well although we talked to her constantly and watched her all the time so, mentally, she was probably as much leashed as when she's on the lead!
Woolgoolga was the next town South and is pretty much dominated by the water tower. Despite the promise, these paintings were the closest we got to seeing a whale.
This plaque ....
.. proves the chopper-on-a-stick is a War Memorial.
The Pacific Highway now goes around Woolgoolga so the Sikh Temple is not seen by the masses on the road. They couldn't see this side of it anyway!
By this time we were getting weary of climbing in and out of the car so went back to camp. It was as though the body-snatchers who had attacked Moree a week back had visited here. The Probus mob had had their party and were outtathere.
You've gotta have a picture of Pigface! I found this sample when I went for a walk up the beach to the North.
I found this growing in a nearby swampy area, adjacent to Pipe Clay Lake
(important to the local indigenous folk) accessed on a boardwalk, and the pink is definitely attached to the bush and not the encircling vine. I have no idea what either of them are!
People in the campground feed the birds!
Just like dawn the sunsets are pretty good. The cloud in this one is the remnant of a hailstorm which struck while I was having a snooze in the camper and Frances was sitting down the beach with Tammy.
Have you ever taken Tammy to Cabin's Beach, the off leash beach at Mullaway? It's our border collie's all time favorite beach. We originally used it just for a half hour stop when on road trips, because it was close to the highway. But then we discovered several marvelous old beach shacks at Mullaway that are dog friendly and literally back on to Cabin's Beach (which is named after them). Now we head down there for the occasional weekend :)
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