The Flora and . . . Fauna???

I put too much pressure on myself to make these blog entries noteworthy, newsworthy and well, indicative of my attempts at 'literary genius'. (I started this entry on March 15!)

I'd never get a novel finished - not in this lifetime anyway.

So here's a quick post with some pictures of some of the local 'colours and critters'.















There's a parrot in one of those trees - look closely and you'll see it!

Now here's a look at some of the local fauna (er, mostly):
















The huntsman spider was in our kitchen when we woke up one morning. We didn't use the flyswatter on it, that was just for size perspective. We're more of a catch-and-release kind of family.

The kookaburra was at our campsite in the Bay of Fires and happily took the piece of sausage we offered him.

The mini angora goats and the peacock belong to our neighbour but they happily come to visit (the goats do stay on the other side of the fence mostly, but the peacocks like to come right up to our glass doors to 'visit')

The donkeys and ponies were in a field on Bruny Island when we visited there on Good Friday. The littlest pony (shown) was no more than 24 inches tall with his head up!

The blue-tongued lizard is enjoying some of the windfall from the peach tree outside our patio doors.

The sea star was found by Martin while snorkelling in Coles Bay on the Freycinet Peninsula. He's holding it on the end of his flipper (more size perspective).

The Black swan (the first of many we've seen since), was photographed by the kids also on the way down from Sydney.

Not sure if the last picture is a kangaroo or a wallaby (wallabies are smaller). We spotted this one (our first 'live' one) on the trip down from Sydney last October. It was quite far away but I think it was a 'roo.