Having an early time of it tonight, it’s way too cold to sit outside, the wind has no warmth at all. Not much blue sky either, lots of cloud cover!

Reading in bed this morning when just before 5 there was a dreadful racket outside. Ravens, galahs and something else all screaming their heads off. Looked out and there was a hawk with a galah in it’s talons and the ravens frantically mobbing it. By the time I got to the door everyone had disappeared leaving the galah fluttering on the lawn. Grabbed an old towel and caught it, only a baby but with a damaged wing. I wrapped it up and put it into a bag as well and then sat outside doing the usual morning ritual. It was a very foggy morning! Told Tess about the galah and she and Sam suggested leaving it in an empty chook cage for a while. Once the morning moved on a little bit, I phoned work’s Jurien office and they said I could take it into the Cervantes office. So did that, leaving baby behind in towel and bag for an assessment.

Had a drive to Thirsty Point and it’s easy to see why this is called the Turquoise Coast, the colour is lovely. Popped into Cervantes Information to ask about the road to Lake Thetis, as it’s being upgraded and had a couple of heavy-duty vehicles working on it. Road is open, just need to drive around the graders, etc. As they are working on the road, the sign to Lake Thetis had disappeared so I ended up at the end of the road at Hansen’s Bay. So came back and found the correct road. Had a short stroll on the boardwalk as didn’t like leaving my car for too long in such an open area with an open window!

Then I noticed a munzee basically in the middle of nowhere, and thought it would be a nice drive. Up Cockleshell Gully Road (unsealed) through Lesueur National Park. Lots of wildflowers showing, capped the munzee then back down the road to the entrance of Lesueur and the 18 km scenic drive. Amazingly it was all sealed, but only a one-way road. So did the loop and then headed back to the Indian Ocean Drive and popped into Jurien and filled up with fuel. It was an old BP garage where they fill it for you! I checked the bowsers as I went past, all unleaded, so asked where the diesel one was. It was right in front of me, behind the huge fuel tanker that was sitting there. The owner was rather astonished when I said ‘No problem’ to his comment that I would have to reverse into place. His comment then was that most people don’t know how to reverse!!

I’ve been lucky with the gravel roads, they’ve been maintained fairly well so quite good drives, even though I stick to 60 km, checking for those kangaroos! Even on the local sealed roads I’ve stuck to 80 km and on the main roads 90 km, no real hurry to get anywhere.

Headed to Cervantes for a very late lunch where I got a call to say they had to euthanise the galah, the wing was too damaged to repair. I also shepherded a western skink out of the eating area back to the outdoors. Yesterday it had been 2 bobtails off roads, LOL.

Back at NS, once again feeding time, but too cold to chat this afternoon. I can hear a pair of kestrels calling outside.

Foggy sunrise Lesueur wildflowers That munzee Thirsty PointLake Thetis