Relaxing round home

Sadly have not being doing a lot lately unless gardening and the odd short walk in the bush count. Speaking of which I have managed to see an echidna and a red bellied black snake within 5 mins walk of the house lately but did not have a camera on me for either of them.


At least four different species of parrot are silly enough to visit us fairly regularly, although I could do without the sulphur creasted cockatoos since they ate my sunflowers.


The dirty creek below the house.


Haloween, the eldest told me she was a vampire bat, but I think she meant vampire.

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This little critter and its relatives are regularly patrolling the garage and clothes line.


A little dinosaur and an even smaller person.


Not overly enthused about the photo.


Brought myself a chainsaw and murdered a lot of trees, mostly not intentionally, this was a nice turpentine that split in two a couple of meters off the ground. Half of it died and the other half was looking like it wanted to take out a significant portion of the neighbours house. Luckily they have heaps of branches so it was relatively straight forward to climb it and lop off the top in sections until it was short enough to feel comfortable pulling it over with a few ropes. I then chopped it up and split it and gave it to one of the neighbours for firewood. It was probably quite good I gave it away for free as it turns out it is a pretty awful for firewood.

Muogamarra 2015 part 2

Forgot to attach the photo of the little ones.

Muogamarra Nature Reserve 2015

Another year and another trip to Muogamarra. Although we always go there it is lovely to go to a park where there is no rubbish, as it is only open for six weekends a year and charges a fee which keeps the ferals at bay.

This year the whole family was old enough to enjoy it, which was nice. It did mean we were limited to doing a half an hour walk over 4 hours though. Still the plants are very impressive here so you don't need to go any faster.


Woollsia pungens


Grevillea sericea


Something in the Fabaceae family.


This was cruising very close to us for a while.


Acacia oxycedrus


Acacia ulicifolia


Eriostemon australasius

Gibberagong

We ended up doing the mangrove boardwalk and the first part of the Gibberagong walking track in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park twice in about a month with the kids. Which considering how little we have been getting out is surprising. Anyway it is a nice walk for the little ones although they still preferred the giant playground near the start of the walk.

Some inherited birdwatching talent there, I don't think he has his eyes open.

Alex turns two.

This was way back in May, but I never got around to posting anything.
Seemed to enjoy himself as they usually do at that age.

Dribbling on the cake.


Pinata, surprisingly hard for little kids to break. They could have been at it for days without a little assistance.


The poor mans pool.

Reptile park once again

While some of the family was around over Christmas we popped into the reptile park once again, as Alex was finally old enough to appreciate it a little.


Although he not looking too enthused here.


Some extremely placid kangaroos.


A very poor effort by the croc he was there for the taking.

Blue tongue

A Eastern Blue Tongue (Tiliqua scincoides) popped in to visit for a few months before it disappeared again. Hopefully it will be back sometime. The little ones appreciated anyway and it was very relaxed.

Muogamarra Nature Reserve 2014

Claire and I popped down to Muogamarra Nature Reserve when it was opened last year. It has been quite a while since I posted anything as this was in September last year.

Anyway now that Claire is older she managed to walk the 2 km circuit around the top at a very gradual pace over an hour or so. Even though we did not go far it was still definitely worth it with lots of lovely plant to see.


Acacia oxycedrus, one of my favourite Sydney plants.