Rainbow lorikeets
Last night’s storm didn’t last long, and today was mostly clear and hot. We were however awoken much too early by the obnoxious cockatoos stripping beech nuts from the trees over our motorhome, and raining them down on us. It wasn’t just the nuts, but complete branches that were falling, so when one landed with a loud thud on top of our solar panels we decided to get up and move. So at about 5:30 this morning we backed the motorhome out from under the tree and put it on the other side of the campsite. It was sunnier there all day, no shade, but at least we didn’t have to deal with the bird droppings.
By shortly after 7 am we’d had breakfast and gone for a walk along the beach. It was already very warm out, so when we got back I set up the computer outside under the awning and edited as many of my Great Barrier Reef pictures as I could, until the battery ran down. Then I moved indoors and finished them while letting the battery in the computer charge from the solar panel. It didn’t get too warm inside before I finished. I’ve posted those pictures at www.digipac.ca/pictures. There are lots of pictures of fish and coral there for anyone that wants to view them.
Enid read the newspaper for much of the morning, and then we both read our books. We continued reading until mid-afternoon, when we both had a shower in the outdoor beach shower. Today we didn’t bother to swim, as the ocean is just too hot. A couple, not too much different in age than us, pulled in with their caravan and truck just before lunch. The woman came by and chatted in the morning, and after lunch Enid went over and visited them. She’s not sure she got everything they said straight – the Aussie dialect is still pretty hard to translate for us. They were happy the weather was so nice and warm. We’re not quite so certain that this isn’t really hotter than we need right now!
By late afternoon the lorrikeets were back, and so I took more pictures of them. There were some other birds, a couple of which I can’t identify from my bird book. The rainbow lorrikeets though are easy to identify, and spectacularly colored.