The cacophony of the birds woke us and the sun too, the screeching of hundreds of little corellas, the throaty booming of the brolgas – did we wake in paradise?   We witnessed a beautiful sun rise, a lovely moon set and myriads of bird life.  This place is a bird watchers paradise.  Our gorgeous grandsons would go crazy here – they both love birds so much I wish we could share it with them.

We went for a walk and then under the shade of a Coolabah tree, camped by a Billabong (waiting for the billie to boil), watching the birds we had bacon & eggs for breakfast.  We sat around bird watching most of the day, black kites, whistling kites, nankeen kestrels, even an osprey that grabbed a fish not 20 metres away from where we sat.  There are two families of 4 brolgas in the billabong, one family at each end, pied cormorants & a flock of around 100 little black cormorants, some stately pelicans and some elegant egrets, including 2 great egrets.  The list goes on, the variety of bird species here is amazing, there are bird nests in nearly every tree lining the billabong.

We had another long walk in the afternoon. We walked the entire length of the billabong, collecting a few feathers for my hat along the way (as if he needs any more, he has enough stuck in his hat to take off).  This afternoon the people that pulled up to camp next to us for the night, we met & chatted with at the O’Shannassy River crossing on the road from Riversleigh Station, what a small world.

We have a most wonderful full moon reflecting on the water, it’s almost light like at day time.  We had dinner outside, it is a beautiful 25C degrees with a light wind off the billabong.

There is always something to spoil things like paying bills on line – they even catch up with you in paradise.