Yikes!!

Matt, my new house-mate, is quite a manly kinda guy.  So when I heard him scream, I knew it must be pretty bad. Ventured down to his room to find this enormous specimen occupying his bed, after just running over his leg.  After the essential photos, we set it free, protecting it from the very interested local butcher bird who obviously fancied a large meal.

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.

 

   

Ouch !!!

I learned two vital lessons during my hike in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park today.

Lesson 1: Don't wear open shoes unless you want to get bitten on the toe by a whopping big bull ant.

Lesson 2: Don't put the dead body of the ant into your pocket to potentially show to the doctor because dead ants can miraculously come alive and bite you again where no man wants to get bitten.

Lessons in life sure can be painful!!

Berowra to Mt Kuring-gai via Cowan Creek and Apple Tree Bay

A lovely 12 km walk with Meet Up in shafts of warm sunshine after days of rain.

I learned two vital lessons on the hike ...

Lesson 1: Don't wear open shoes unless you want to get bitten by a whopping big bull ant.

Lesson 2: Don't put the dead body of the ant into your pocket to potentially show to the doctor because dead ants can miraculously come alive and bite you again where no man wants to get bitten!!

Kirstenbosch

Jo, Matthew and I had a fun afternoon ambling through Kirstenbosch.  This surely must be one of my favourite places in the world.  The guinea fowls, flowers and spiders put on a great display for us.

Walking in The Blue Mountains

We did two shortish walks on the weekend of Dani's party. On Saturday, a small group of us went off for a nice walk to admire the views of Pulpit Rock.  It always fills me with awe.  Then on Sunday, the day after the party, another group of us ventured a bit further.

Saturday walk

Sunday walk