Lost and cold: 2005

Friday 28 October 2005

Still more Royal N.P.

Went to the Royal national park again last week and below are some the things that I saw.

A flannel flower.

There were thousands of these little bug things everywhere.

A view of the scenery.

A shy wonga pigeon.

Some black and yellow cockatoos.

A freshwater eel.

A large native roach.

Thursday 27 October 2005

Eulamprus quoyii

Plenty of reasonably large Eastern water skinks (Eulamprus quoyii) were seen on a recent walk to the royal national park.

Saturday 15 October 2005

I went and saw the movie serenity on thursday. Before I went to the movie I was a little skepticle of what it would be like but considering that, due mainly to starwars, I normally do not find much pleasure in the sci fi genera. However serenity has changed my opinion and reminded me how truely awful starwars was. Well worth watching if you have some spare time.

Monday 10 October 2005

Netball

Drew our social netball game on sunday, the teams second best ever result.

Royal N.P.

Went for another walk in the Royal national park on saturday. The weather was overcast and windy which kept the temperatures to a tolerable level. Saw plenty of criters such as an eastern water dragon, a giant cockroach and the elusive wonga pidgeon. Sadly though i forgot to take my camera. Still a good walk with very few other people around to disturb the wildlife.

Thursday 6 October 2005

Caves

Exploring some of the caves and large cracks in the clifs that can be found in deep pass.

The cave from afar.

Entering the cave.

Nearly in.

At the end of the short little cave.

Inside a large crack in the cliff.

You could see the campsite from one of the cracks.

Deep pass

Went camping in deep pass in the blue mountains over the long weekend.
It's an easy 30 min walk in which was good as it was very hot over the weekend.
The campsite is lovely with a river near by as well as some caves to explore.
Sadly though because it is reasonably easy to get to it has become a little poluted by thoughtless people and ferals leaving there rubbish lying around.

There is a water dragon in the above photo and if you strain your eyes enough you may be able to see it.

Flowers

Some flowers that were growing in abundance around deep pass.
The big red one is a waratah which is NSW's state flower. I have no idea what the puple thing is.

Big Skink

Saw this skink in deep pass in the blue mountains.
It is probably of the genus Eulamprus but I can not be certain what species it is.

Monday 26 September 2005

Mullberrys

Looks like it's mulberry season again.

Little skink

Lots of little lizards are about now that it's starting to heat up.

Dead Cat

Floated past in the estuary while I was walking in Glebe.

Thursday 22 September 2005

Blog Search

About time someone did it.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch

Brought to my attention by the beeb.

Saturday 17 September 2005

I don't actually like cars

Went to St Kilda and for cakes and coffee and a quick pose next to a rather inefficient piece of transportation.

Sunset

Managed to fluke a nice photo of a sunset over Melbourne harbour.

Here is a not quite sunset photo looking towards the city.

Melbourne again

Yet again went down to Melbourne to do some squidding.
Managed to have a little look around while I was there though.

The transportation was provided by sneville in the fine automobile below.

Went to some beach on the peninsula.

Saw a cuttle fish shell.

I find it's always best to be to be taking the photos especially if you have a face like mine.

It was a very nice drive around even with the melbourne weather which changed from sunny to a thunderstorm and back again numerous times during the trip. Also did some wine tasting which was rather good.

Furniture

It took about four hours for one honours student, one PhD student and one post doc to put together a bookcase. The coffee table pictured only took me about three hours but by then I'd had a lot of practise.