This Adventurous Age

Adventures travelling and working around Australia.


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2005 Travels May 5

THURSDAY 5 MAY

Just a routine day with chores about the place.

I did the watering again.

John continued with framing up the shelter.

I took a photo of a big legless lizard that was lurking in some growth at the safari camp. It was a big one and scared me, initially, when I thought it was a snake.

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Legless lizard in there! Curved shape across centre of photo.

A pointy nosed frog was sort of wallowing in a wet patch – the result of me tipping out washing water – near the van. I thought it was the same variety as the one that had been by the van wheel. This place was an absolute haven for wild life, being so close to its natural state.

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Pointy nosed frog in wet patch

Our resident cane toad was a regular presence too. At least I assumed it was the same one……

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Our totem!


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2005 Travels May 2

MONDAY 2 MAY     PUNGALINA

It was our day off.

I found a little frog with a very pointy nose, on a board beside the van wheel. O told me it was a Rocket Frog. Cute little critter.

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I finally got to open and inspect my box of book goodies and was really pleasantly surprised. There were ten books, all to my taste and all recent releases that I hadn’t read. What a great service!

Paperwork and information had come from Birds Australia and we talked about what sites we would survey, and when. The camp environs were an obvious choice and we thought we’d have to try to add a wetland area as well, and incidental observations as we went about the place.

Just relaxed about camp – I started reading a book.

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Our camp looking more habitable

It was still hot in the day times, but not quite the extremes of when we were first here. Maybe we were acclimatizing, too.

O was setting up the computer in the “office” – a room in the old silver bullet caravan. A was insisting that this become functional to aid all our communications. I really needed it to research supplies. John gave him some help, when it was asked for.