Monday, November 19, 2012

New South Wales - click on any photo to make it larger.


New South Wales, where we now are on DST – an enlightened state!

We have spent 2 nights in a delightful caravan park in a small village called Tenterfield. The first day, we enjoyed the spectacle of parrots at feeders right next to our site.  On the first morning, we awoke to the musical duet of a pair of magpies – lovely!

The second night, no food in the feeders so not so many birds for us to look at up close.  Still, it’s nice to be in a place where bird song is constant, bottlebrushes bloom , the scent of jasmine is in the air and where campers know how to be quiet so as not to ruin it for others. If Canadian campers behaved as well as Australians, Jock and I might still be campers in our own country.

We had a good day in several NPs close to town. Nothing spectacular except for the Bald Rock, “ the biggest in the southern hemisphere”. But we enjoyed the truly beautiful forests of several NPs.

No wonder he's called the king parrot! He sat so close to me that I had trouble focusing the camera!

 

Crested pigeon

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