"Des[s]erting for the desert "on Australia Day

With Rod and Jesie about to leave Darwin for Alice Springs,an invitation to spend
Australia Day evening with them was extended and it was a great evening.
We all brought desserts.

As the theme was "des[s]erting for the desert" it was appropriate that friends gave them a "Deserters Kit"





Rod and Jessie are ready to become grey nomads down the track sometime in the future?

In out of the rain

Seen on the front porch this evening

More lizard shots

The Frill-necked Lizard, or Frilled Lizard also known as the Frilled Dragon, (Chlamydosaurus kingii)is still outside the Department of Health and Families library and Menzies School of Health Research at RDH each day.



For more information about Frill-necked Lizards

Seen around the library garden

We have a visitor at the Library athe moment, Dr. Charlie Corke from Barwon Health in Victoria.

When I snapped a group photograph of the project team, this Frilled-necked Lizard was an observer.

Catching up with Jeanette

I dropped into to see Jeanette today. She has just moved into her own unit and she needed the help of her friend Roger and myself to move some plants from the balcony downstairs to the garden.. They were heavy..



A long session drinking champagne and chatting in the pool later was a nice reward!

Fogg Dam

Took my first trip for the year out to Fogg Dam .. alone.
And so it seemed as there was very little birdlife that I could see. I noticed some Common Egrets, Pied Heron (aka)Pied Egrets , Rainbow Bee-eaters, Willy Wagtails, Lapwings. I also saw a pair of Wallabies and a dingo.






Also lots of thankfully dead Cane toads!

Christmas in Adelaide 2008 Part 2

After Christmas I visited old friends Rachel

and Martin Verdonk

in a long term tradition of having a Boxing Day meal with them.

and caught up with Pam, Dave and Terry.

The day after I went to see Ken and Sue who were staying at Terrys home. They dropped me off next morning at my sisters unit at Unley.


The next morning Barb, Chloe and I met with Philip Keane and Sue Milne in Hahndorf for morning tea toured the shops and a nursery.


and then lunch at Sue Milnes lovely cabin house in Aldgate.

I also went to McClaren Vale and nearby to visit wineries with Barbara.


We both like the winery K1 at Kuipto:

On New Years Eve we took Chloe to see the animals that are in the care of my sister-in-law Jo and brother Tony.


On New Years Day I went with Barbara to catch up with some of her friends north of Adelaide before I flew back to Darwin via Melbourne.
Chloe looked a pretty picture.