On Sunday Digby and I paddled our sea kayaks north to Emmagen Creek. On the return journey, the pointy bit of my boat nearly collided with a dugong. It was crossing in front of the kayak, diving out of the water and then plunging. It was so close I felt I could almost touch it. In twenty years of living here, I have never seen a dugong and to see one so close - WOW! what a privilege.
The tail flashed before me - it was like a miniature whale - and the mermaid like tail gives rise to the legends about 'mermaids'.
Learn more about dugongs
Monday, April 28, 2008
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Stripey Possum visits the cottage
Next to the B&B cottage is an Ice Cream Bean – a huge legume tree with wonderful boughs, and long thick beans with seeds inside them – loved by the local children and enjoyed by fruit tasters as something different.
This seedling is now 6 metres high and it shouldn’t be there – it blocks the view from the balcony to the mountain –in the avenue to the cottage.
Our guests sitting on the balcony late one evening hear a scratching in the boughs of the ice-cream bean, shine the torch to the sound and there looking down on them is a tiny Stripey Possum.
These possums are relatively rare – in the twenty years I have lived here I have only seen 3 – one in a tree only 3 metres away from this location. It is an animal that the guides search for on night walks and rarely find.
The irony is wonderful. Our guests are driving twenty minutes south to do a nightwalk with a guide, who is looking for stripey possums to show them. They don’t see one on the nightwalk, and then return home around 10.30 pm and there is the stripey.
It is there for the next four nights – arriving at about 7.30 and loitering for a couple of hours to feed on the beans.
This seedling is now 6 metres high and it shouldn’t be there – it blocks the view from the balcony to the mountain –in the avenue to the cottage.
Our guests sitting on the balcony late one evening hear a scratching in the boughs of the ice-cream bean, shine the torch to the sound and there looking down on them is a tiny Stripey Possum.
These possums are relatively rare – in the twenty years I have lived here I have only seen 3 – one in a tree only 3 metres away from this location. It is an animal that the guides search for on night walks and rarely find.
The irony is wonderful. Our guests are driving twenty minutes south to do a nightwalk with a guide, who is looking for stripey possums to show them. They don’t see one on the nightwalk, and then return home around 10.30 pm and there is the stripey.
It is there for the next four nights – arriving at about 7.30 and loitering for a couple of hours to feed on the beans.
Monday, April 14, 2008
I want it all
I have just found this hilarious story from two travellers who did the fruit tasting on our farm, and thought others might enjoy it too. Here is an extract:
The first thing I noticed about the land cruiser that came to take us to the farm was that it had a snorkel. Cars should not have snorkels. Cars are not boats.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Walking the Bibbulman Track from end to end
Over 2 months - February and March, we walked the Bibbulman Track from Albany to Perth in Western australia, taking 52 days, and travelling nearly 1000 km on foot. There are campsites located approximately every 20 kms. Here is our story as a slideshow. We are thrilled to be home, and already planning our next walk! - either the Larapinta Trail or the Appalachian Trail
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