Category: Newcastle

Bush walk

Our two little “ fur babies “ are lovely but very early risers . Anita feeds them and I walk them . They are now in the bedroom ( bathroom & kitchen ) with us & do after an early start and with Anita working on line submitting tenders I did an early bush walk

The Yeularbah trail in Glenrock Conservation area
Mostly Gum forest and very noisy high pitched birds
No sign of Koalas or Walabies
After lunch set of into the Newcastle Wetlands. But they were too wet and not enough dry land . Even my old walking partner Andrew L wouldn’t have tried to get past the water hazards
Fortunately no Crocs and not too many bugs , just a few coots
Kookaburra and a low flying Osprey ( sorry no shots Andrew , but didn’t need a boat trip & 8 eagle eyed ornithologists to spot )
A Kookaburra with no sense of humour ( he didn’t laugh )
Mangroves and Aussies Rednecks on boats – un filmed , bit risky in the swamps
Followed the for – shortened swamp trip with a visit to downtown Newcastle. The highlight being a steelworks te enactment at the Newcastle Museum. Loved by the audience, especially the nursing home day out

The evening ended with Anita’s first ever dog poo pick up . She loved it

Dog in the bed

Neon and widget are lovely dogs , but night times are tricky. Anita tried to take them on and lost . By the middle of the night she had little Widget asleep next to her on the pillow – with me hiding from the grandfather clock in another room . Plan B will commence tonight

Bright and breezy at Nobby’s head
Dodging showers past Nobby’s . Never made it to the end
Fort Scratchley , the only place on mainland Australia to fire at the japs . They missed
Our mate Dave Price says he put the roof on it in the 90’s . No one here had heard of him & they were all pretty old
And been here a while
Preparing the pillow for Widget
They all sailed home without a scratch in 1942 dear

I took no photos in Woolies shopping on my own whilst Anita prepared to teach in Redcar