A full week

The weather has been just beautiful.  So beautiful that I haven't had anytime to write.  Plus, on Monday I decided to work in my garden, got bitten by something and have had a terrible reaction to it.  It is still giving me grief but having been bitten before by this thing in my garden I know that the reaction to the bite will pass. 

It has been school holidays here and with all the fares on the ferry being 50c we have been inundated with day trippers along with others who came to fish.

It makes a wonderful day for a family with the great weather and beautiful sandy beaches but is terrible for parking on the mainland.  I have to admit I stayed at home for the first half of the week because I knew I wouldn't get a parking spot for my car if I moved it.  When I did travel it was on the barge along with the other locals because there was no room on the ferry. 

Beside the day trippers people have moored their boats off the beach and stayed here.  One group of men had all made their boats themselves and each one was perfect. 

Just a delight for the eye.

It has been time for the migrating birds to return from Siberia and they have flown into the bay in huge flocks.  It quite takes your breath away to see them arrive.

And the whales are here on their migration down to Antarctica.  The big ones stay in the deep water.

But the smaller mothers and babies have come to within 50 metres off the beach at the front of my house.

The whales had been hunted almost to extinction, it is wonderful to see them returning.  Mother Nature has put on a show for spring.

Comments

[Rachel]

A wonderful show for you to see - even if you did get bitten as well!

[Carolyn Foley]

I must be more careful.

[Carolyn Foley]

They turned out far better then I thought they would.