Parrots, parrots, parrots ... :)
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stellar_muddleSo...
Fri: Arrival and settling in.
Sat: Central town up through the Uni, Rundle Mall and upstairs bookshop, central markets (yay chocolate fountain and strawberries) and next second hand book shop. Home and collapse. Dusk parrots at a local park.
Sun: Main Botanical Gardens. Turtle. Small green oblivious munching parrots (Masked Lorakeets). Cacti behind tall fences :(. Very cool seed and plant use exhibition. Cockatoos and galas.
Mon: Mt Lofty Botanical Gardens. High speed parrots. Unafraid Magpies. Rhododendrons not quite out appart from one. Southern striped Bandicoot! leaving conical nose holes (bandicoot craters) in the turf.
Tues: Belair National Park. Windy Point was windy. Emus (two of which were hungry emus, with better hair than John Kerry...). Not the most impressive waterfalls. Parrots. Koalas - 5 of them! 1st ones we have seen "roaming" free*.
Weather has generally been cold and breezy but sunny, with clouds wandering past at an unseemly rate when they do show up. Slight almost drizzle walking back today.
Lots of photos.
More to see in the next few days.
* Ok, sitting in a tree and occasionally moving slightly other than swaying with the branch in the breeze, though the last one moved about half a meter while we watched. First fuzzy lump turned out to be a mother and baby, and Z argues from the photos that there may have been two babies.
Minor whinge: Don't you hate it when you put the book you were reading down "somewhere" in the house, and haven't been able to find it since. And it is a library book too... and the sequel is sitting there waiting for me to finish the earlier one...
Fri: Arrival and settling in.
Sat: Central town up through the Uni, Rundle Mall and upstairs bookshop, central markets (yay chocolate fountain and strawberries) and next second hand book shop. Home and collapse. Dusk parrots at a local park.
Sun: Main Botanical Gardens. Turtle. Small green oblivious munching parrots (Masked Lorakeets). Cacti behind tall fences :(. Very cool seed and plant use exhibition. Cockatoos and galas.
Mon: Mt Lofty Botanical Gardens. High speed parrots. Unafraid Magpies. Rhododendrons not quite out appart from one. Southern striped Bandicoot! leaving conical nose holes (bandicoot craters) in the turf.
Tues: Belair National Park. Windy Point was windy. Emus (two of which were hungry emus, with better hair than John Kerry...). Not the most impressive waterfalls. Parrots. Koalas - 5 of them! 1st ones we have seen "roaming" free*.
Weather has generally been cold and breezy but sunny, with clouds wandering past at an unseemly rate when they do show up. Slight almost drizzle walking back today.
Lots of photos.
More to see in the next few days.
* Ok, sitting in a tree and occasionally moving slightly other than swaying with the branch in the breeze, though the last one moved about half a meter while we watched. First fuzzy lump turned out to be a mother and baby, and Z argues from the photos that there may have been two babies.
Minor whinge: Don't you hate it when you put the book you were reading down "somewhere" in the house, and haven't been able to find it since. And it is a library book too... and the sequel is sitting there waiting for me to finish the earlier one...
