I am really enjoying being able to drive again and am feeling stronger so am able to get out to more interesting places to walk.
We have a minister, Paul, visiting our church here for 6 weeks and his wife Lesley is a keen walker so this morning I picked her up and drove down to the Lady Liz at the end of the harbour. Fom there we walked along the far side of the harbour to Engineers Point.
We saw upland geese with goslings and logger ducks with ducklings.
When we got to the point a variable hawk started flying around us quite noisily, obviously not happy that we were there and then his mate appeared.
Looking down over the edge of the small cliff we spotted their large nest on a ledge and could just see fluffy chicks in the nest.
We stopped at Hadrassa Bay for a snack and watched some magellanic penguins come out of the sea and toddle off to their burrows. It was a lovely sunny morning but the wind was picking up as we proceeded along the coast to Gypsy Cove. However when we went down to the beach it was sheltered and a real pleasure to sit in the sun watching a group of penguins on the sand.
Just as we were leaving Gypsy Cove a pod of Peale's dolphins were feeding amongst the kelp. It was a real treat, beautiful scenery, lovely weather, fascinating wildlife, good company and feeling stronger.
I took this photo of lichens on a rock when I was out yesterday.
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