Our great southern migration

  Sacred kingfisher as "robin" and  the black-faced cuckoo shrike as batman?  Sorry for the pause in postings. We have been on the Myall Lakes chain in a houseboat for four days. This was our 30th anniversary. We had big plans for 25 but it was 6 months into COVID times so everything was shut down. We went for a lovely walk in a local park instead. This time we took the 33 ft Aries on a 4 day adventure. Deck above with grill and bed down below. Very stable and not super fast.  Our last anchorage (we did drift slightly from this point in the wind). You can sorta see the tender (rowboat) out back. We took that to go ashore to find that kingfisher! We also took it to spend brunch with some of Madill's classmates for their 40th reunion. This required extra help from the Myall Lakes Getaway Houseboats  group- Shout out to Dallas and his kids for making it happen! And Happy Anniversary to us!

  The whipbird has an amazing call and is hard to catch with the camera as evidenced below: For the last one, you can see its tail as it flies behind the tree. And these are the shots we saved! This video is also amazing (not mine) and has the call about 1 minute in: I felt it was appropriate to have the sensation of whipping around in circles for this blog.  Our container is ready for release! As of Friday afternoon. Monday is a holiday. We want to leave for our anniversary trip on the 1st (Weds). This is not computing.  Back to the beginnings.  Our anniversary is Oct 5 and we hit 25 years in 2021. Right in the middle of pandemic isolation. Rather than the sailboat adventure in the Virgin Islands, we went for a walk in Green Lake Park in Shoreview.  It was lovely. However, we decided to try again for 30 years. We have rented a houseboat in Myall Lakes Oct 3-7. Being as we are retired, we were going to take our time getting up there. No, our truck is not yet ...