On my way home from a job to the WA Border I diverted to Port Lincoln - well Wanilla actually.
My middle daughter, "Precious #2" and he partner have acquired a large block of land at Wanilla, after the Eyre Peninsula Black Tuesday bushfires roared through this little hamlet and randomly destroyed property and lives.
They also acquired a demountable house for the cost of removing it from the block in town. They are surrounded by trees flush with regenerated foliage, and the magic, colourful carpet of wildflowers in full bloom. WA doesn't have it all its own way when it comes to the proliferation of wild flowers.
The bird life abounds, and they have made friends with a magpie family and a couple of crows, and as the garden develops the honey eaters will come.
The marginal and unpredicatable farming country west of Ceduna looks sad and dry, and what remains of the crops has been sacrificed as stock fodder. The rest of the Eyre Peninsula east of Ceduna looks lush and productive.
What a fickle country we live in and enjoy.
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20ft Roma caravan - Mercedes Benz Sprinter - SA-based at the moment. Transport has no borders.
Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
Looking at getting my pilot licence $1000 here in WA. In the 80's it cost nothing, sorry i did not do it then (-: I have driven a taxi over 2 million km and the taxi company had a pilot division too, bugger.
Any info you have to help me would be appreciated.
Cheers
Chris
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Cheers, Chris...
"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished" - Benjamin Franklin
Thought you must have been away on another job CG. good to see you back on here. Know what you mean about the abundant birdlife. Just amazed at the variety up here at sons. Parrots of every colour, wild budgies, honey eaters, maggies, C0ckies with the yellow crests, galahs, and so many more. I buy wild bird seed and put out for them. The noise morning and evening is so bad we have to shout over them to be heard. Love it.
Hi CG - I too, thought you must have been working - good to see you made a detour to visit #2 daughter - sounds like a great place they have got - and yes, wildflowers are all over Oz at the moment - the countryside looks wonderful, though here in Boonah,there is quite a lot of smoke - backburning in the mountains I think - necessary in some very inaccessable country. I can imaging breakfast HW, out on the back deck with birds all around - and the two of you yelling to be heard - what a laugh!!!!
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jules "Love is good for the human being!!" (Ben, aged 10)
John, yeoeleven, was amazed. The majority are rainbow lorikeets he said, plus of course all the others. We walked out in the back paddock and watched them in the trees, they come down quite close now. Its like having our own bird sanctuary. There are wild budgies, blue with yellow heads and red under the tail, much bigger than a caged budgie. Sorry to hijack your thread CG, didn't think you would mind. It just amazes me watching them all, and yes, yelling to be heard Jules.
