The mobile tree - Jan has been crafty again, and she is hanging her creations on a tree out front. That's how it looked when I went to CWS to help tour guide a school group. Bella Marie was the entertainment at the Sanctuary Market for our usual Friday supper out.
Morning visitors to the birdbaths: scaly breasted lorikeets, and a remnant feather from a rainbow. Jan's arty efforts using local tree seed pods as canvasses for dot paintings. Some pictures of a new 'road' in our complex, intending to show how steep our hill really is. Full moon evening: Oz Thai take-away eaten on the Brett's balcony. A few of the 'wild' animals in the Sanctuary. By that I mean that they are not cared for as parts of the zoo collection. First is an Eastern water dragon, catching some early sun on a park bench near the park entrance. The next 2 pictures have follow-up video clips below. There is huge brush turkey nest beside the path by Wild Island, and I saw a little water dragon in the water at one of the Tazzie Devil enclosures. Jan met me after shift and we went to Burleigh for lunch Wahoo Burger meal and 3 fish tacos for $20. It was more than we could eat! Back up the hill, one of our shy Australian King Parrots came for a visit. I managed this shot through the balcony door screen before he flew off. Full moon rise around sunset. Good time to go in before the bitey insects come out. We walked down the hill & along the beach to pick up a rental car again. So, expect some more excursions in the very near future.
For any non-Ausies that may be viewing, the guy on the motorcycle on the sidewalk is a postie delivering the mail. Close-ups of a very fresh Portuguese man-o-war on the beach. Stopped into the 'exotic' Asian market in Miami & found the mango drink in a plastic bottle with an aluminum (aluminium for the aussies & brits among us) can lid with a snap opener. The instant noodles with the oh so cool name is from on of the big-chain grocery stores. Walking down our hill to catch the bus, Barry was driving down & picked us up halfway. He was going to work a shift at the Sanctuary. Worked good for us as that is our nearest bus stop. Bused to Coolie & then walked around to Rainbow Bay, Snapper Rocks & Frog Rock. Looks like Froggie has a newish coat of green paint. Rainbow Bay surf life-savers were ringing the bell to get everyone out of the water. A few minutes later, a helicopter did some slow sweeps: shark-spotting activity, I'm sure! All clear & people back in the water a short while later. We were too early for lunch at the SLSC, so we had a late second-brekkie instead. I found ONE button on the beach walk back to Greenmount club. The mural/art-wall is at the Strand shopping center in Coolie, just outside of the Aldi store. The last picture is not clear, but each little white speck is a noisy corella (cockatoo/parrot). Flocks of hundreds roost in the flats below us, and fly up & down our valley/hills at least twice a day. Two little video clips of the possible shark sighting. Another brilliant start to another lovely day in paradise.
The title explained: Jan & Barry have been playing with aboriginal style dot painting, using all sorts of things as canvasses, including seed pods of trees like the black bean, or the poinciana. We spied some likely candidates on our long bike ride, so today we went back with a car & a pole "lopper" to get some prime pods. And because one tree was in the parking lot of the Seagulls club, we HAD to go in for iced coffees & pastries. Then we drove to the start of the closed-road bike trail we did, & went for a wee exploration on foot. Barry went his way & we bussed to Palm Beach SLSC for lunch (our usual 2fer coupon to get chicken snitzel). On our way from the bus stop at the Sanctuary, we saw a bus with really cool paint-job, and only a few step from there we noticed a rare opportunity to frame a kookaburra and the moon in the same photo! |
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