Ross river and Crystal Creek

Yesterday, Ady and I took Sally the dog for a walk by the Ross river. We were looking for bee eaters as they still haven't come into Ady's garden. A lovely walk was had by all.
This is an update on the foxtail palm from the last blog. As you can see, the flower buds are bursting out now.

I don't know the name of this flower.

At last, a rainbow bee eater

A spangled drongo

One of the houses by the river



Today Pip drove Ady and I to Frosty Mango for coffee then we had fun at Big Crystal. As we were leaving, Mardi arrived with 6 teenagers who were looking forward to going down the rock slides. We had only played in the 'spa' at the bottom of the slide.










We went on to Paluma and a short rainforest walk.
This is part of a fig tree which takes over another tree and lives off it.

This was a dead tree, inside of which was the 'parasite' growth.

There were several of these redbark trees on the walk. They were wet to the touch.

A lovely pattern on a bark on the rainforest walk at Paluma.


Back at Pip's house, her husband, Paul showed me a bower bird's bower. The male bird makes this and collects 'silver' objects to attract the female birds. I managed to snap a bowerbird but he was moving around a lot.