Bridget- A Day Of Beach and Birds

It's only 8.30 but Jeremy and I are ready for bed, we're simultaneously writing our posts for today. Who will win the blog post race?

I'm feeling right at home here at our first stop in south Australia. It's the drizzle, I'm fondly reminded of camping holidays of my childhood in the west of Ireland.

Today we left warrnambool and drove to the delightful town of Port Fairy which I found out used to be called Belfast! So again I felt quite at home. After spotting a fish eating falcon at the harbour we headed on to the industrial town of Portland, then on to a place called Nelson where there is a big estuary full of birds. I tried to sketch while I got Jeremy to identify birds from my iPhone apps. We did quite well and even figured out that the little diving bird swimming close to us was a hoary headed grebe. A new one to me, I always feel proud of finding and identifying new birds.

Just up the road from our little grebe we crossed the border into South Australia and headed for a tiny wee place called Port MacDonnell which is where we are now. I can hear the waves crashing on the beach that we walked along earlier before dinner. Tomorrow is supposed to be a bit grim weather wise. We'll see what our options are then. Maybe another night here ( I think Jeremy Is hoping to get to sample the speciality Port MacDonnell cray fish if we do stay) or make a dash for it to Mount Gambier.

As for the photos, I'm sorry they occur in such random order, it's this app I use. There is no way of arranging them. So there they are, just a jumble of images of pretty seaweed, us, a couple of drawings and the map!