Some Christmas colour

Xmas in Adelaide

I came down early to Adelaide to attend the funeral of Barbara's father, Max Cameron Coat.His funeral was well attended by over 180 people mainly from the local district.We saw many more of Max's friends when we attended a few days later the the Christmas party at the Iron Bank CFS, which is a popular tradition. Max was an early member and supporter of the CFS
Chloe's cousin Arielle looked cute as Ms Christmas.




We had a nice pre Xmas lunch at Robert Coats Iron Bank property with its lovely gardens and roses









Bec was joking about a face lift!
And Chloe looked different preparing for her swimming class:


Chloe and a neighbour, young Alex prepared a chocolate pudding for us

Max went to stay with his father over Christmas so I only saw him briefly.

French girls frog handling..

We had a couple of French tourists, Priscilla and Sarah visit us and Hugh found this frog near our pool and the girls were delighted to hold a frog for the first time.


Sarah with frog giving her the cold shoulder

Priscilla had the frog jump on her nose!

Picnic Tea at Nightcliff.

My work colleagues and I had a picnic tea at Nightcliff last night.
The sunset was 'painting' some lovely pictures.

Seen on the way to the office Chlamydosaurus kingii

Meant to blog this before. I nearly ran over this Frill-necked Lizard, also known as the Frilled Dragon, (Chlamydosaurus kingii) a few weeks ago and snapped a shot when it scaled a tree.

ALIA Top End Xmas Dinner was held at Hanuman

The ALIA Top End Xmas Dinner was held at Hanuman,one of Darwin's best know restaurants last night. Jayshree and I thanked the group for a great year and certificates were awarded to graduates from the CDU Information Studies programs as well as Silver Pins for 5 years service to ALIA. We also had door prizes etc.

Dot painting

Interesting story to tell. In the Todd Street Mall on Friday I bought a dot painting from Willowra Community artist , Patsy Ross. Within 5 minutes it fell out of my laptop shoulder bag. On my return from Uluru, next morning on Sunday I checked with the Alice Springs Police Station and I was very lucky, somebody had handed it in!!
Thanks Alice Springs anonymous person for handing it in!!
Image Copyright © The artist Patsy Ross

Uluru

From the coach




Almost too much to take in. It so big and the Dreaming stories are quite interesting. So much to see and do and take in.

Our tour guides Scott and Tic were great, this is the long and short of it!!



I was lucky to get some reasonable shots of a Black-Headed Monitor(Varanus tristis tristis)

and also some Rainbow Bee-Eaters (Merops ornatus)








I chatted to this couple from Echuca, Ken and Margaret Walter.


The sunset viewing was packed with coach tours and the dinner was a hearty BBQ although strictly not meant to be on my diet these days.

I tried to get some sleep on my way back but no luck.