Spring around Berry Island

Berry Island is one of my daily walks and I took my little camera with me today.  The flowers were out in force.  So beautiful.  I really do live in the midst of paradise.

Muogamarra Nature Reserve

Chrisèl and I enjoyed a lovely walk at this nature reserve.  It's open only for 6 weeks of the year when it becomes a celebration of beautiful spring flowers.

Some highlights of the day ...

• The friendliness of the rangers and staff, mostly volunteers.
• Taking photos of the flowers and the bees, all putting on a marvellous show for us.
• Discovering what a Trig Beacon is.
• The stunning view from the trig beacon over the Hawkesbury River.
• The strange, cobbled rock formations in a few parts of the park, they almost looked man made.
• A delicious meaty pie and cool ginger-beer at the famous pie shop next door; the in place for bikers  to strut and show off their stuff.

 

   

Wild flowers of Muogamarra Nature Reserve

We visited this little nature reserve ahout 45 minutes from Sydney and were dazzled by the beautiful spring flowers. Here are some macro shots of some of the species we saw...

Spring has sprung

The buds are blooming...

the flowers are flying...

and the colours are beautiful


Macro-shot

Spring has sprung

Glorious weather has arrived at last and the daffodils are blooming. I almost couldn't believe it when I stepped off the plane from Sweden and suddenly felt extremely hot in my winter jacket. Blue skies. Glorious sunshine. I'd forgotten just how good it felt. Ally and I celebrated with an evening walk by the river. Thank goodness for the weather because we needed a bit of cheering up. Ally's being messed around with her new job. They've kept delaying her start date so she phoned up today to discover they haven't actually "authorised" her role yet with the director and it's not even a definite thing. Basically they've been offering her a job that doesn't even exist yet. We'll only find out on Monday. At best, she'll only start on April 1st now. Not very professional. And on top of that, she took the car for a basic £100 service and ended up with a £750 bill. When it rains, it pours! But at least the sun is shining...

Some geese can be notoriously nasty. In fact, poor Ally was severely traumatised by a troop of hissing "feathered monsters" when she was a teenager. They had her running around a swimming pool with them in hot pursuit. But these Cambridge geese (see photo) were awfully cute and waddled past us at close quarters with gentle hello's. I took a couple of close up shots while Ally cowered on top of a nearby table in terror. Her teenage memories were still acutely fresh.