Black and orange butterfly
We walked around the Blue Mountains viewpoints this morning. It was quite foggy when we started, but later in the morning the fog lifted some and so the views improved. It was cool, enough so that we slept under one of our sleeping bags last night, and wore long pants when we hiked today. There aren’t a great deal of tourists around, probably because it’s not very warm. We did see lots of Europeans (judging from the language, mostly Germans) who seem to come here and use campervans, and lots of tour groups of Japanese (who seem to travel in tour busses in large groups). There are only a very few I can identify as having a North American accent.
There are quite a number of butterflies about, nothing large, but some quite colorful. They don’t sit still, but flit about in the air, rarely landing on anything, so it is hard to photograph them.
This afternoon has been quite windy, and though the clouds are starting to move away in the east, it is still quite cloudy elsewhere. I edited pictures for much of the afternoon, so have posted quite a few on the website www.digipac.ca/pictures.
Tomorrow we will be going to Canberra to meet the Kindrachuks and Halladays extended families for supper. After a few days in Canberra we will be going to the farm at Araluen for Christmas.