Fall 2011 Terrestrial Activity II

I found these 4 stained glass windows on the street the other day, almost crashed turning around to pick them up.

These guys were hanging out on the roof next to our place. Giant kingfisher relatives.

We went camping with a few families over the weekend, and it was fun to be around kids again but a little weird being the only childless couple there.


There was an eagle in the tree across the bay.

It really feels like fall here now.

Sydney Spring I

Oops. Actually it is fall. It's all backwards down here. I also managed to post these pics in reverse chronological order.

We walked out to the tip of the N head of Botany Bay. There is a riveted steamer wreck washed up there, and its pretty cool. Like most stuff in AU, you can just go climb on it. I like that.

Here's a rust flow from some other ruins.

There are so many interesting spots for sedimentary geologists here. Karin's dad is one and I wanted to take him here but we all got sick from an LAX flu.

Nice views from out there. It was rainy.

We also went on a terrible hike to the Lady Carrington track again (but this time with Karin). We saw a monitor lizard who was digging into a termite nest, maybe to get its babies out. Also, on St Patrick's day morning I looked down in my shower and found a chunk of gold. It must have stuck to my foot somewhere somehow. It was fragile so I had to pick it up with wet TP.

Nelson Bay 2011

New. Check out the disgorged mouth parts, and the sponge skeleton.

Crab on sponge, slug on slug.

Fatso feesh.

Crazy anemone! Pipefish. Look at his little blue spots.

Look, its a sea slug on a shark! Holy crap.

New.

Sydney Seahorse.

New.

New on new! Cleaner shrimp on a black slug.

New. I would name this one after Karin, it's so purdy. Chromodoris Kvale.

There's a crab in that pho-to.

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A pineapple fish, accepted the bottom of my palm as the ocean floor.