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.

Saturday morning at Fogg Dam

Its been quite a while and because its been wet recently it was time to again to take a look at Fogg Dam.

The usual suspects, Rainbow Bee Eaters, Crimson Finches, Egrets,
Jacana I even spotted two Broglas flying high above.




The flowers, Lotus , Water Lillies were colourful

Noisy and big

This Cicada came inside the house briefly until we showed it the door.



For more information on these insects try this link

Fungus near the car park

Seen on a tree in the car park area

Meeting at Palmerston campus

The Reference and Information Servics team along with a couple of us from the Liaison team met in the Palmerston Campus Learning Precinct this morning and had a great morning tea along with some weeding of the collection. It's a pretty location alongside the lake.

Wildlife on the front porch

Each night there are always many of these geckos.
Tonight one was available for a good closeup!

I have shown the little creature in relation to the house bricks and then in macroview


And cropped again..

They are there each night so they will have to get used to me..

A great day for sailing

I got a phone call this morning, would I like to go sailing? Very much yes! So I joined Julie, Margaret, David and Craig on Adam Gollow's 10.4 metre (34 foot) catamaran Khamsin.



We motored out through the Cullen Bay lock and
had a really good afternoon's sail.





We had fun for something like 4 hours sailing around Darwin Harbour.






At times it was quite hot but when we got a good wind it was pleasant to be out on the water.


The spinnaker provided dramatic colour.








I could take a lot more of this!!

The owner,Adam,had an eager and skilled crew (except for yours truly) so occasionally he was able to relax.




Khamsin is moored at the Cullen Bay Marina