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This week’s creatures – 10 February 2023

Alex julian rocks, mount cootha, public_photo_gallery 2023-Feb-102023-Feb-12

Been a long time between posts! Here are some creatures from the last couple of months.

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garden lizards

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an afternoon at jimmys farm with julian

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sydney with me aunty steve and joel

cool spiders on mount cootha and garden

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This week’s creatures – 18 July 2022!

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Some of the random animals we have seen in the last couple of months!

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byron bay dives with grey nurses

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byron bay with sharks caroline and company

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This week’s creatures – 25 March 2022 – Bandy Bandy, Stick Insect, Wasps!

Alex mount cootha, public_photo_gallery, Weekly updates 2022-Mar-252023-Feb-12

It’s been a while! Here are some shots.

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This season’s creatures – 8 November 2021 – spiders, emus, water dragons!

Alex public_photo_gallery, Uncategorised 2021-Nov-082023-Feb-12

This spider is in a funnel shaped web on Mount Cootha

It’s been a long time between updates!

Travel restrictions have made it very difficult to go diving or hiking in gnarly places. However, we have seen some pretty random stuff on some local travels. Here are some of the highlights.

Big Red Kangaroo at Lone Pine Sanctuary. They are planning to vascetomise him next week.

This is a lemur, doing what lemurs do

Emu at Lone Pine Sanctuary

Rhinoceros at Australia Zoo

Lizard on a trunk

This is a leaping lemur!

Glass House Mountains - Beerwah, Coonawrin, Ngungun

Flowers at Australia Zoo

Bird eating a flower stalk in the forest at Cunninghams Gap

This is a pidgeonhole!

Pigs, pigs, pigs

Rhinoceros at Australia Zoo

This tiny lemon will be tasty, in about three months' time

Crab in the crack of a rock at Caloundra (Shelley Beach)

This spider is in a funnel-shaped web on a tree on Mount Cootha. I'm guessing it's a local Brisbane-based funnelweb.

Water dragon chilling on a tyre at Lone Pine Sanctuary

Emu at Lone Pine Sanctuary

Giraffes at Australia Zoo

Sunset with the October stormclouds over Paddington

This guinea fowl was wandering around at Australia Zoo

This is the view from Bare Rock at 6AM

Sentiment at Caloundra. At least it sort of rhymes.

This is the view from Bare Rock at 6AM. We were actually very lucky to have the cloud, the view was incredible.

The forest at dawn up behind Cunninghams Gap

A baby Praying Mantis on new spring leaves

Birds at Caloundra

Water dragon chilling on a tree log at Lone Pine Sanctuary

Cows at the Sunshine Coast Hinterland

This week’s creatures – 3 April 2021 – Moogerah wanderings

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The view from the summit of Mount Edwards

We have been working hard and getting out has been difficult in the last few weeks. Here are some of the sights we have seen on our travels.

This is one of the Mount Cootha native preying mantisses

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This mushroom has sprouted after heavy rain on Mount Cootha

This skink was hiding from us as we walked past

This is actually how lizards do it.

The water is being released into the Fassifern Valley. The water feeds Reynolds Creek which is primarily used by irrigators. Being up here brought back memories of working at Seqwater!

Witchity grubs on a tree on Mount Cootha

These witchity grubs were ambling up a gum tree on Mount Cootha. The sugar gliders are probably waiting nearby, licking their lips.

This is the view from the summit of Mount Edwards, looking north. It's a gently sloped hour walk from Moogerah Dam - it has a nice view but is not the same magnitude as some of the nearby peaks.

This week’s creatures – 15 March 2021 – Emus, lizards, devils!

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It’s been a long time between posts, and in the interim, I have been focused on a lot of other projects – backyard construction, landscaping, and studies.

The photos below show some of the interesting sights we have seen over the hot Brisbane summer.

Wombat sleeping in a wombat hole! (At... unfortunately... a zoo enclosure...)

A spectating lizard watches these crazy humans

5 kilos of butter chicken! It's a bargain!

Breakfast of champions!!!

Wombat sleeping in a tree trunk (At Lone Pine Sanctuary)

These tables are for grooming pets. In a different environment... they would look very imposing... think X-men...

These huge murals make the Brisbane CBD more interesting

Nearly empty streets on a Saturday evening during pandemic lockdown

Big male kangaroo stares at the photographer

I'm getting sized up by a male kangaroo

This tasmanian devil is growling, not yawning. Better to steer clear of it methinks! (Lone Pine Sanctuary)

The beady eye of the Emu

Two kookaburras on a branch on Mount Cootha

Being sized up by the Emu

The emu looks terrifying, but is actually eating grass. It's very difficult to give a friendly smile when you have a beak.

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This week’s creatures – 30 November 2020 – Baby Currawongs, Koalas, Dragonfly

Alex public_photo_gallery, Uncategorised 2020-Nov-302023-Feb-12

Baby currawong sitting on irrigation pipe

There’s been a lot going on at the moment, both animal-wise, and project-wise. It’s been difficult to pin down a time to look at the shots!

There was an enormous dragonfly sitting on a tree trunk in the yard, waiting for me to get a shot
We have had a baby currawong bird (similar to a magpie, but less aggressive) end up in the yard, and it can’t fly. We’ve been giving it water and making sure it’s got shade during the day, and its folks are feeding it.

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This week’s creatures – 15 October 2020 – The Red Hill Ski Jump!

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We have been seeing a few spiders walking around on the Cootha slopes but it has generally been quiet due to the dryness and lack of rain. Hopefully we will get some proper rainfall in November, which will increase the number of animal appearances!

The road below is one-way due to the crazy steepness… if we get decent snowfall in Brisbane I would strongly endorse that the government builds a ski jump here.

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