Random thoughts and observations
I took this picture with my mobile phone today while walking past the West Beach Primary School.
I’m neither a botanist nor an ornithologist, but the birds are some type of parrot and I guess the bush is a bottlebrush.
I’ll mention too the weather has been remarkably cool for Adelaide in February over the past week.
There has been heavy rain in Traralgon over the past week, causing minor flooding of the Traralgon Creek. I used to like playing along the creek’s banks when I was a kid. It was pretty rough in those days (70s) with lots of blackberries, but in the town at least it has been pretty well cleaned up today. The creek used to flood significantly as well, but mitigation works have eased the threat.
Spring has arrived early this year. Walking to work this morning, I was swooped by a magpie on the edge of the parklands along Sir Donald Bradman Drive.
I’ve seen a lot of millipedes lately. Initially they were only outside, mainly in semi-rural areas on the fringe of town. I virtually tripped over them while out walking. Then they started creeping into town and we began seeing them inside the house. At Robe on the weekend they were everywhere. I haven’t given much [...]
We drove 550km from Mount Gambier to Moe today to spend the weekend before Christmas with my mother. We stopped just over an hour from Mount Gambier between Coleraine and Hamilton in Western Victoria to see the Wannon Falls. The falls were created by lava flows that surged upstream to the Wannon River. They feature [...]
