November Project: Days 15 & 16
Nov. 16th, 2013 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calissaYesterday morning was filled with fantastic cloud.
The photo really doesn't do it justice. The clouds were a precursor for rain that afternoon (as all the most interesting clouds are).
This morning I discovered that my friend from the other day was back. Unbeknownst to me, my sweetheart managed to get a shot of us sharing breakfast (with me still in my pyjamas).
After getting dressed, Sahaquiel and I headed out to meet some friends for a hike at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary. The reserve is of particular significance for its efforts to restore Yellow Box - Red Gum Grassy Woodland which is considered to be a critically endangered ecological community. In recent years, they have released a number of bettongs, which have been extinct on mainland Australia for a century.
I'm still getting the hang of landscapes.
While we didn't see any bettongs, we did see a number of kangaroos and all manner of birdlife. Below is a photo of a wallaby. They're much shyer and smaller than their cousin kangaroos and so I was surprised that this one allowed us to get as close as it did. Apologies for the quality of the photo--even with the telephoto lens, my iPhone doesn't deal well with distance shots.
We had a very lovely time, despite the rain that came pouring down on the last part of the walk. There was something very peaceful about walking through the forest with the rain grey around us.
I'm feeling super sore this evening. I hope to build up my fitness so that I can go on more walks like this one.
The photo really doesn't do it justice. The clouds were a precursor for rain that afternoon (as all the most interesting clouds are).
This morning I discovered that my friend from the other day was back. Unbeknownst to me, my sweetheart managed to get a shot of us sharing breakfast (with me still in my pyjamas).
After getting dressed, Sahaquiel and I headed out to meet some friends for a hike at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary. The reserve is of particular significance for its efforts to restore Yellow Box - Red Gum Grassy Woodland which is considered to be a critically endangered ecological community. In recent years, they have released a number of bettongs, which have been extinct on mainland Australia for a century.
I'm still getting the hang of landscapes.
While we didn't see any bettongs, we did see a number of kangaroos and all manner of birdlife. Below is a photo of a wallaby. They're much shyer and smaller than their cousin kangaroos and so I was surprised that this one allowed us to get as close as it did. Apologies for the quality of the photo--even with the telephoto lens, my iPhone doesn't deal well with distance shots.
We had a very lovely time, despite the rain that came pouring down on the last part of the walk. There was something very peaceful about walking through the forest with the rain grey around us.
I'm feeling super sore this evening. I hope to build up my fitness so that I can go on more walks like this one.
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Date: 2013-11-16 10:38 pm (UTC)In the second landscape, is the grass naturally/often burnt down to be short like that, or is it a field/wold-type space? Strange foreign trees...
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Date: 2013-11-17 02:05 am (UTC)To be honest, I'm not quite sure. I've got no marker for "normal" since this type of environment is endangered. The kangaroos may go some way to keeping it short with their grazing, but I don't think that's solely it.