Water lily

At Voyager Estate, a winery down south, they have the most beautiful gardens with ponds... with water lily's...

Tadpoles - Update 2

I have the little rascals now for four weeks and they've grown big. Although they still vary in size, I suppose some are a bit younger than others. But they seem to do fine. There are 9 in the bowl (there were 12 but I've given away a few to a friend) and they become really tame. The taddies in the pond are much more shy but also still happy swimming around.

Kookaburra

Christmas weekend we were camping down south again, at Boranup Forest bush camp. And like last time, around dinner time, the Kookaburra's arrive! And you have to take care they don't snatch something of the bbq!

Frangipani leaves

The Frangipani's in my garden are in different stages of leafing and one already is forming buds for the delicious smelling flowers.

Parsley

Blooming parsley in my garden.

Artichoke flower

Saturday I had to pick up fresh sherries and nectarines at a friends place when her neighbor came in with an artichoke flower for each of us. They are really pretty and even smell good!

Giant orchid like flower

One of our neighbors has a bush with giant orchid like yellow trumpet flowers.

Tadpoles - Update 1

One week later; the tadpoles are still happily swimming in the glass bowl I've put them in 10 days ago. There are about twelve little taddies in it in different sizes, the smallest is very tiny and still transparent while the biggest is as big as a pea with a tail. Look at the little mouths, they almost look like drawn on their faces... I keep them in water from the pond in the front yard complete with algae and I feed them some extra fish food which they like to eat apparently.

Bees

Bees are swarming around the fountain in our front yard, especially on hot days like today.

Bue bottle fly

This Blue bottle fly looks like he or she (?) is loosing belly skin...

Big flowers

This huge bush with even bigger flowers is growing along the main road in Dwellingup and I was meshmerized by the sheer size of the flowers and the way how they open. Who knows what flower this is?

Cricket

I am never sure if it's a cricket or a grasshopper, this one hopped away and it was late afternoon so it must have been a grasshopper as crickets are more active at night... but on the other hand, grasshoppers are often much greener...

Huge garden spiders

These hairy creatures are taking over our garden at night. And they are not particularly small either... While photographing one I got stuck between two huge webs with even more ugly spiders in it watching me and when the wind blew them almost touching me I couldn't help screaming.

Tadpoles

A few days ago a friend appeared with a bucket full of taddies which I've devided into several watery places in the garden as well as a few in a glass bowl to look at. They are great little things to watch when you are a bit bored. I'll keep you updated how they turn into Motorbike Frogs!

Penguin Island

The rocks at Penguin Island are habitat for the weirdest water creatures like these ancient shell like thingies.

Crested Terns

Hidden for the strong winds and waves behind the seaweeds at Penguin Island where heaps of Crested Terns with their juveniles. Check the movie I made on Sunday:

Seaweed

Sunday at Penguin Island the west side was heaped with seaweed, shining in the sun.

Bark

The top one is a paper bark, the bottom one is hard to see but I like the scribbely bits...

Yellow

These gorgeous yellow wildflowers where visited by heeps of bees in Yanchep National Park last week.