From a few days ago, the trip could become a big “twitch”, as everywhere we stop there are new birds. Unfortunately we see more than we can photograph.The campsite next to the Mitta Mitta river was in knee-length grass, and a squashed brown snake on the bridge over the river kept us vigilant. No cows here! Still 500m above sea-level we had ice on the trailer at night.
Animal Action
Camping by the Mitta Mitta River
Categories: Animal Action, Australian Outback, Travel, Travel Adventure, VIC
Tags: Fairy Wren, Mitta Mitta River, Willie Wagtail
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Lakes Entrance, Victoria
Another animal action day on the beach at Lakes Entrance. We took the 4km walk along the beach to the entrance to Gippsland Lakes, then back along the historic bushwalk on the northern side of the strip. Rusty relics lie in the bushes, winches used to build the seawall, timber posts that used to house bells, and much more besides. Seals and dolphins swam into ride the waves at the entrance, while a group of seals basked further out, sunning their flippers out of the water as they lay on their backs.
Categories: Animal Action, Journey Narrative, Location, Travel, Travel Adventure, VIC
Tags: Dolphins, Gippsland, Lakes Entrance, Seals
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Yadboro flats
Driving on from Pigeon House mountain we stopped at Yadboro flats by the Clyde river. The road had just been graded so everything was covered in dust. After the exhausting climb in the heat cooling off in the river was the best end to the day. Next morning we were up at 6am looking for wombats and found one scrambling around the river bank 50m from the camp. Then we found an ornate satin bower bird building it’s display bower, intricately decorated with blue objects and yellow flowers. A great place that we could have stayed longer at.
Categories: Animal Action, Australian Outback, Journey Narrative, Location, NSW, Photography, Travel, Travel Adventure
Tags: Bower bird, Camprite, Mitsubishi Pajero, Yadboro
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Booderee Wildlife
Possums arrived in droves last night to the campsite, with the sole purpose of raiding any foodstuff that might have been left in reach. Tell-tale footprints on the stove and tables showed the action didn’t stop after we went to bed.
This morning we had many more visitors, wallabies and kangaroos.
Categories: Animal Action, Australian Outback, Journey Narrative, National Park, NSW, Travel, Travel Adventure
Tags: Booderee, Green Patch, Jervis Bay, Kangaroo, Rosella
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Birds and Booderee Botanic Gardens
Just a couple of our avian visitors, many more of whom we encountered today in the verdant botanic gardens. One of the favourite spots was the mossy path through the forest gully pictured below.
Categories: Animal Action, Journey Narrative, Location, National Park, New South Wales, NSW, Travel, Travel Adventure
Tags: Jervis Bay
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Booderee National Park
Jervis Bay is beautiful! The birdlife at Green Patch was fantastic. In a couple of days we have seen variegated fairy-wrens, endangered eastern bristlebirds hopping through the dense bush, ospreys, sea eagles, king parrots, eastern rosellas, wood ducks and much more. There are swamp wallabies, kangaroos and echidnas around too, some even tame enough to pat. At the derelict lighthouse we found a snakeskin (brown snake!) almost 2m long.
We played a variation of Pooh Sticks with pumice pebbles we found on the beach – Pooh Stones.
Categories: Animal Action, Beach, Camper Trailer, Journey Narrative, Location, National Park, New South Wales, NSW, Travel, Travel Adventure
Tags: Booderee, Green Patch, Jervis Bay
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Fifty Toes Walkabout 
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