Friday night at the Darwin Sailing Club

Hugh and I spent a few hours enjoying a meal and then the company of Jayshree,Peter and Julie. It was as usual a warm steamy tropical night with the occasional nice sea breeze.
Lots of chat...






There was also a princess who was delightfully sitting under the tap having a cooling shower

Stoke's Hill Wharf and Star Gemini cruise ship

Hugh and I spent some time on Sunday afternoon weather watching at Stoke's Hill Wharf and then observed the cruise ship Star Gemini motor away from Darwin after its one day stay.
There were fairly spectacular storm clouds and some distant lightning but it seemed to blow past us and there was no rain although some strong breezes. The cruise ship Star Gemini sailed away fairly briskly and we watched its passage as we drove back down to Fannie Bay.

Darwin Sailing Clubs Annual Presentation night

I was asked to take photographs for the Darwin Sailing Clubs Annual Presentation Night celebrating the 2007 racing season. These are a few of the over 300 I shot over 4 hours.... relax, I won't include them all!

















The junior squad has some keen young sailors

After the presentations and dinner it was time to dance for those with the energy or to stand on the cliff tops and get the sea breeze

Friday evening and Saturday morning

Hugh and I enjoyed the cool breezes at the Darwin Sailing Club on Friday evening.

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On Saturday morning we walked to the local primary school to vote and I spotted this lizard called locally a Ta-Ta also known as a Gilbert's Dragon Lophognathus gilberti

Visit to Palmerston campus

I needed to spend an hour or so at the Palmerston campus on Thursday.
Its such an attractive campus although sadly the resident goannas seem to have fallen to poisoning by eating Cane Toads

Moths view of gecko

I cannot get much closer! Moths eye view of gecko.

Update on Cicadas

I discovered this tonight... A couple of empty nymphal skins from Cicada
on one of our garden trees


Its interesting to read that Cicada live under ground in the nymph stage for 6-7 years then come above ground, leave their empty nymphal skin on a tree and then have a short life as an adult living then only a few weeks.See this link for more information.

Cicada

This Cicada chose Keira's green singlet to rest on.

Storm on the way home

Hugh was working today at Window on the Wetlands[see this link] so I met him there for lunch. I met his workmate Wendy.




On the way home we had to drive through
some spectacular thunderstorms.