Jill and Gerard's Seachange

My fill of Nature!!

Well I think I have had my fill of nature today!! Mum and I were held up in Bairnsdale this morning going to Orbost by 1/2 hour! Luckily my appointment to the Osteo was altered. Happily driving along as usual, watching the side of the road incase there just happened to be a kangaroo jumping across the road. Mind you we have never seen one yet!!!!!! Touch wood!!! and what do I see but NOT ONE!! NOT TWO!! BUT THREE!!! YES THREE EMU'S!!!!! Well did I come to a halt pretty quickly!! yep I sure did!!!! Did a uey (youwee) across double lines ssshhhhh don't tell anyone and went back to the spot where they were and yep sure enough there they were three of them!!! Just grazing about a metre from the road!!! Got the camera out real quick! (yep I am taking it everywhere from now on!) and snapped, unfortunately I had zoomed in and only got one in the pic, and by the time I zoomed out for the three of them they were gone! just like that. Boy were we both amazed. Never even realised that there may be emu's around the place!!! So here it is.. ta daa! Well you have already seen it at the top of this blog. Still not got the complete hang of it yet, wanted to introduce the emu to you first but just cannot seem to get it to do what I want it to do!!!

So after we calmed down and got on our way again, we finally arrived half an hour early for the next appointment, so we decided to go for a little drive around Orbost. It is such a lovely place. The people are so friendly, they take pride in the town, it has a very wide main street, and you feel very relaxed. Lovely views and a drive along the Snowy river, gorgeous parks. While driving along a back road looking at the rolling hills beyond some houses I saw something on the grass ahead and when we got near it was a Kookaburra! When I was very I mean very little and young we lived at the foot of the Dandenongs at a place called Mount Evelyn. The land was pretty big and we had chooks, a goat, dogs cats, big veggie gardens, a mini orchard of apples, pears, lemons, and a clothes line that stretched just sooo far. It was a long line propped up with tree trunks with a fork at the top, I remember there were three of them, we used to un prop them all to hang the washing on and then up the trunks would go. I remember them swaying back and forth in the wind. The bottom of the trunks were shaped into points and they were pushed into the ground to keep them in the same spot. So what does that have to do with Kookaburras????? Well I remember Dad used to go out to the line and there used to be Kookaburras sitting on the line waiting for him to give them their daily feed of meat. They used to make a lot of noise (laughing etc) to let Dad know they were there! Nowadays the kids living in the suburbs would not experience anything at all like that. Maybe feed a few magpies if they could be bothered. It is such a shame as to experience nature this way was the best. I might see the odd one on the way to Melbourne sitting on a power line, but not often enough. Anyway while I was taking some pics of this Kooka, mum said ooohh, look over there!! and there was another one. A pair of Kookas. O.K. O.K. I sound like a read kid, but I enjoy this type of stuff. but wait there is more!!! The kookas did not mind us sitting in the car across the road from them, they were happily digging in the grass for worms and insects oblivious to the world going past them.

Finally we came across the local Geese, usually there are three of them the two above and one that is completely white. So the locals say they turned up one day and have decided to stay. Quite often they are sittin on the bank in front of the supermarket basking in the sun. The town have made their own "goose crossing" signs. They are so big!!

The indoor painting is coming along, aahh that lovely smell!! eeuugghh..

posted by Jill @ 6:03 pm