Some birds at Gisborne

The bird life round here is amazing. Our hosts buy "wild bird seed mix" and feed some to, in particular, the king parrots. I have learnt their chirp when they come and ask for feed. In fact they are fairly tame. I have a video of one on David's arm and trying to eat the seed mix directly out of the container.


The crimson Rosella also likes the bird mix and often appears on the back porch rails too.





One day Brandt and I were here on our own. I heard the king parrot asking for food, so gave it some.


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Greens Lake revisited

After 7 weeks in Port Augusta we were finally able to get on the road again. We now had a new motor under the bonnet and the automatic transmission had been serviced.
First night we stayed in a small caravan park in Morgan, second night in Euston. Both are on the banks of the Murray River.
Monday 4th November we arrived to free camp at Greens Lake. The lake is fuller this year than it was last year. The grass has been mown regularly. So the place looked lovely.


Now we know that some of us live as cheaply as we can, but going through the rubbish??


Tuesday was Melbourne Cup day. So of course the ladies had to wear beautiful creations on their head.


We were planning to leave on Wednesday, but one grey nomad said, "you can't leave yet. We haven't had our pav or the rest of your menu"
We obliged, staying another night. I made a pav and Brandt made a camp oven casserole and a trifle.
Once again it was a good gathering at Greens Lake.


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