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.

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!