Life is a Journey

As we continue our journey through our farm Craig went ofor a walk-about yesterday and got some great shots such as:

The Black Camp Creek with more water in it than it has seen in at least 5 years. The brown colour is a result of its flowing so fast.



Look very carefully and you can see the water dragon swimming away from the rock at about 11 o'clock (just to the left of the dead branch hanging down).
Wild Lilly Pilly berries:

Same again.
Looking downwards along the path of the creek.
A busy bee collecting nectar from a thistle flower. Great shot eh?
This is one of my favourite place on the farm and it shows both the cruelty and wonder of nature. That tall tree in the centre of the picture looks like it has 2 bases and meets at the top; actaully it has 3 and does join at the top. It is a strangler fig. These trees grow up around another tree in a vine like pattern and feed off that tree until it is completely strangled and dies. The original tree inside the centre of this one has long since died and we are left with this unusual looking tree. Just above where it joins into one again there is an emmense Elkhorn fern and also several huge Staghorn ferns.

Craig took this shot for the colours and lines then when we got it back to the computer we discovered a tiny female fairy wren in the picture. Can you spot her?

This little fellow is very pretty but I could not identify him as yet. As soon as I do I will edit this paragraph with the name. Told you I'd be back.......he is a Red Tailed Finch

Life is a Journey (and here is the middle)

More feathered friends, our little band of Finches. It is amazing how much you notice when you go out looking for things.

loved the lines and the look of the fence here.

Birds everywhere.........mostly becuase there are ants everywhere and they love them.

Looks like some sort of a fantailed wren.

Female Fairy Wren

The male bring a prized bug to his date. Personally I prefer chocolates but she is very interested.

Lady and Flame from a distance.

This tree trunk is soooooo big it would take 3 of me with outstretched arms to go around it. Talk about a tree hugger.

A view of our property.

Home for many different types of birds, animals and insects.

Another view of nature's highrise for animals.

Life is a journey (here is the end)

As we find the wild raspberries as above and the Red-backed Fairy Wrens below we realise just how kind nature has been to us. It certainly makes me realise we MUST preserve it at all costs.

Wrens again.

A beautiful view looking back over the main area of our farm with the shed showing behind the tall dead gum tree. The gum tree although dead makes a great home for many types of parrots and other animals.

What a view! Looking off into the distance from the top of one of our hills.

Looking down the side of the hill the grass is very tall as you can see from the inclusions in the picture.

To get to the top of this particular hill Craig had to walk through this tangled mess of vines branches and ground cover.

This tree is the survivor of a strangler fig that tried to wrap itself around it.

More dense sub-tropical rain forest.

Here is a beautiful shot of a wild Staghorn fern. These attach themselfs to just about anything and can survive....even on the side of a rock as in this picture.

An Staghorn and Elkhorn fern in the middle of this picture.

A mixture here....both Elkhorn and Staghorn ferns growing together.

Lots of Elkhorns growing on dead trees and leaf litter.

Same again.

and again.

Peeking through the rain forest into the open paddocks.

Maiden's Hair Fern (the light one) and another type of fern. Great contrast eh?

Again looking over our farm from above, no the far hills aren't ours.

Another beautiful view.

Even weeds have their own beauty.

A vine with lovely coloured flowers, also a weed.

More of our paddocks.

I love the contrast of the greens, blue and white.

On his way back home, down the mountain.

Again a lovely picture of contrasts.

Looking down towards the Black Camp Creek.

Some of our Silkies, I love the two at the back especially. Their colours are lovely as well as their patterns.

As you can see Reeses is coming through her chemotherapy relatively with patches of hair missing here and there but that is usually as a result of the vet having to shave her. She is starting to look like a poodle.

And Peanut wondering what all the fuss is about.