Un koala, dos koalas, tres koalas …

On a sunny Sunday we went to Belair National Park. This is the oldest park in South Australia.

We chose the longest trail. Angry miners everywhere are the same.

There were only few people in that trail. Not busy at all. We passed an Echo tunel, not spacious one.

Grey fantail.

Somewhere trail was pretty steep and stony. On the top of the hill we found a very small waterfall. Or shoul it be called waterdrop?

The result of rainy winter – green grass.

Ok ok. This is the best thing we found in Belair. It looks like someone came and put them in the trees in some artistic way.

The first koala didn’t give a shit about us.

The second one looked very tired after yesterday.

Koala number three. Too busy.

The fourth looked at us for a second and took a nap again.

What are you looking at?

The fifth one. I wonder, what were they doing yesterday.

Fresh wind was touching her hair… Well, her ears. The sixth Koala, we met on our way.

The last one. Nothing new.
That’s why we say: Lazy like Koala.

Handorf

After walking in a park, we visited Handorf.

It is a little town in the hills, settled by Lutheran migrants many years ago.

Pretty cozy but overcrowded with tourists. And why, oh why they make terrible shinny signs in such a place? They just don’t fit there. Of course we didn’t made photos of them.
Left – a horse and internet café. Right – an exterior of a little shop-gallery.

Houses are different than those in Adelaide.

A young magpie was lucky enough to find a fat worm.

Warrawong national park

This weekend we went to the Warrawong sanctuary, where platypuses live. Besides, this park is indecently close – only 20 minutes away from the city, so we had to visit it.

Though, it’s still officially winter in Australia, but for us Europeans everything resembles spring. Blossoms is everywhere around.

Blue ones.

And yellow.

Trees are also pretty nice.

It is still autumn for some of the trees that are trying to ripe their fruit.

Enough about plants, we came here for the platypus.

We looked for it in the forest…

… and in some sort of swamp. Unfortunately… So we had to enjoy animals that are not so mysterious.

We found angry moorhen that was demanding for food. We also found some kangaroos.

Grazing kangaroos.

Lazy kangaroos.

And wallabies.

Some interesting relationship among animals. And of course, a variety of birds.

Red-browed finch.

Red wattle-bird.

Maybe that was a platypus?

Bird life snippets

Few more snippets from the life of birds.

Galah tree.

Not only pigeons may bee sweet.

Local crow is looking for something under the leaves.

Bronze-wing is just browsing.

Speedy wren sat down to rest for a half of a second.

Scarlet robin is planning it’s next hunt.

Young and grownup magpies.

Corella doesn’t understand what do you want from it.

And finally one more short movie 🙂