Thursday, October 29

Bad day to leave my camera at home, saw lots of cool birds and even some wildflowers that I'd not seen before, erghhhh. There were two galahs on the ground, eating flowers, and they let me get really close, which they ordinarily don't do. Then I ran into the family of ducks I've been watching, the babies have grown a bunch since I last saw them and there are still 13 left, from the 14 they started with. There was also another new family of 6 babies, they look like they're only about 2 weeks old, so cute. Although I've seen kookaburras before, I'd never heard one until today, and it is easy to see why they're called laughing kookaburras. The best way I can describe the call is a oh-wah, oh-wah, hee, hee, hee. Very strange, and really did sound like he was laughing. There's another bird that sounds like a car alarm, haven't figured out what they're called yet, but Oz definitely has some strange sounding birds.

Well we got a new car today, halleluja. The one they gave Bill initially was called a Commodore, big old thing with super heavy doors that nearly takes your foot off at the ankle if your leg is out as the door swings closed. Which it does all the time. The best way to describe the car was "clunky" and it had some major blind spots. So, Bill mentioned that he would really prefer a much smaller car, and something that wasn't 11 years old, and they seemed shocked and embarrassed that he had been given such an old car. So, they gave him a 2007 Ford Focus and he is now a happy camper.