Hi all, just a quickie as I wrote a long post and loaded all the photos and lost the lot! grrrrr!
Today I took my younger son to the lake to feed the ducks, there were two huge geese that wouldn't stop hissing and spitting and were quite scary, but after a few stern words they quietened down and my son hand-fed them, lovely!
There were also pelicans on the mud-flat in the lake, they are such beautiful graceful creatures. There were about a hundred or more brown ducks on the mud-flat too, but they didn't come over to be fed, just the black ducks, seagulls, magpies and geese.
This is a blue-tongue lizard that slithered across the playground in town last week when we were there. I yelled to my boys to come quick and we raced over and I picked it up. I showed them and before I knew it I had a small crowd of kids and parents all patting it and taking photos.
We gently put it in the gardens away from the playground afterwards so it didn't get hurt by any kids running around and accidentally standing on it.
Yesterday we had VERY hot weather, the caravan was unbearable as we haven't got air-conditioning yet, the bugs were out in force! This is the big gas tank in the caravan park covered in bugs, they are a orange black and brown beetle type thing. They are about an inch long and really ugly, but harmless.
The tree behind our caravan is loaded with them swarming around it and all over the annexe roof! Ugh!! This was the best place to take a pic.
I get bugs like this all over my flyscreens at night too trying to get inside for the light, I'm burning mozzie coils like crazy. The bugs are taking a little getting used to but we're coping well.
And this is a 3 foot long (highly poisonous) brown snake that my 6 year-old son found near our caravan!! This happened a week after we got here. He came inside after riding his bike and said, "I'm being a good boy mum, I saw a snake and I came inside to tell you!"
Well I mumbled something about it was probably just a stick but I'll come and look anyway..... out I went and there it was..... FUCK!!
Needless to say snake has been removed!
I cannot express strongly enough, if you go anywhere in the bush, TALK TO YOUR KIDS about what to do if they see a snake. Both of my boys have autism and I am SO grateful that they both know what to do, and my younger boy did it.
A bite from one of these can kill. Since then there have been 2 more in the park plus two Tiger snakes, which are even more deadly and one killed a dog.
Because we are situated over the road from the wetlands, and there's been huge floods this year, there's tons of food so there's zillions of bugs, who feed the zillions of frogs, who feed the zillions of snakes.
I'm not scared of snakes, but I'm terrified of my boys being near one, so we do lots of talking about it.
Some people have been horrified that we'd want to live in a place where there's snakes and bugs and all, BUT this is pure heaven compared to the concrete suburbs we left behind!
Life is great!!
