366 July 2020

We have a family of Australian Magpies who wander around foraging.

Landscaping our backyard, NSW, Australia. We had a landscaper with a team of workers. They took three days, brilliant. They completed a deck under the house, a pathway around the base of the deck, steps up the side, and smoothed the rocky ground in readiness for 200sqm of turf.

Fossicking around in our street. The galah is one of the most abundant and widespread cockatoo species, is easily distinguished from other cockatoos by its distinctive grey and pink plumage and its short pink to white crest. The word ‘galah’ has come to be used in Australia to mean ‘fool’ or ‘idiot’, possibly because of this species’ playful antics. A highly social species, the galah often occurs in large, noisy flocks.

A historic house in Tuncurry, NSW, Australia, built by the Wright family around 1909. John Wright was the founder of the town of Tuncurry, and the ship building industry it became known for. Named after the vessel S.S.Tokelau which was the new name of the vessel Tuncurry built by John Wright in 1903 at Cape Hawke. The Tuncurry was sold in 1908, and renamed as S.S. Tokelau, serving the High Commissioner for the British Western Pacific Territories, until it was sold again in 1915 in Suva. It was shipwrecked in 1916, after taking water abeam of the Barrenjoey Lighthouse, Broken Bay, NSW, Australia. The Tuncurry/Tokelau is a protected Historic Shipwreck. Extracts from Wikipedia In the early morning of 22 October 1916, the timber coastal steamer ss Tuncurry (ex-Tokelau), with a cargo of 1500 bags of cement, 1100 cases of explosives, 100 cases of whisky and 60 cases of jam, sprang a leak during a trip from Sydney to Brisbane... The steamer sank quickly at 4.15 a.m. on Sunday morning, 22 October, all ten crew and the Captain just managing to make the safety of the lifeboat. They sailed back to Sydney and arrived at Watson's Bay by 8.30 a.m. www.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=1839

To be planted in our garden soon :-)

A rainforest walk from Hallidays Point leads to this lookout. We first went to the whale watch lookout and did actually see a distant whale spouting. Afterwards to the village for some groceries. 'The first authentic European record of the area comes from the diaries of Captain Cook, who sailed along the coastline in the 'Endeavour' in May 1770 and named Cape Hawke as he passed.' greatlakeshistorical.museum.com/exploring.html

blue/yellow red/green ceramic tile Sunday challenge - complementary colours

NSW, Australia Busy day, awaiting the gas man. We had a leak on our cooktop, so haven't used it for ages. Now fixed. He had his daughter with him, a teenager. She is working in a local restaurant and says that they are well patronised, usually filling with the allowed 50 people.

Very welcome rain overnight and set to continue for a few days. Poinsettia