Boodjamulla – Lawn Hill National Park …. Part 2
Although we’ve been home for more than a week it has taken a little while to settle down to writing and we have had the distraction of family visiting as well – that’s enough excuses! We thoroughly enjoyed our trip and have many treasured memories, not always accompanied by a photo! The following are a few of my favourites.
Boodjamulla – Lawn Hill National Park
This is just a quick update post – I apologize for the lack of detail as I’m trying to type while wearing my new fingerless gloves as it is very cold sitting in the little annex of our tent. We are now in Mt Isa and some of the caravan people who visited us this evening, to make sure we were okay, told us that frost is forecast for tomorrow night. We’re glad we went shopping for some extra warm gloves and beanies today – I’m never going camping without a beanie again!
Its hard to know where to start with Lawn Hill …. there have been three good wet seasons there and many species are enjoying the available food. The Grevillea flowers look beautiful, especially so when there are honeyeaters working them over and the variety of seeding grasses is a bounty for finches and doves. Grevillea dryandri grows on rocky slopes amongst grasses and boulders, as does the holly-leaved Grevillea wickhamii in the second photo below.
A different outlook
En route from Normanton to Burketown we had a marvellous morning birding – too busy looking through binos and enjoying the scene to try and take photos of Flock Bronzewing (they were too far away for our equipment) and the flock was wheeling around with a flock of Cockatiels. Marvellous sight and one of those that will stay in our memories, so too will the Banded Plovers as both species were new to us.
This is just a quick post to say that we’re (obviously) away from home having left Wild Wings in the care of a couple of very capable house-sitters, Nev and Dee. Tomorrow we are heading for Boodjamulla, Lawn Hill National Park where we will base ourselves for the next week. The weather is dry, in fact very dry, for a couple of rainforest creatures like us and we are using a lot of lip balm and moisturizer ….. well no actually Allen is not using the moisturizer although he probably should! It is wonderful to be travelling self-contained with our tent, binos and a box of reference books – lots of fun.
Barbara
Allen
