Saturday, Oct 25 - Albany

Pics: roos!

Torrential rains over night. Up at five again, this time to fierce winds and off and on rain. We drove to Two Peoples Bay again so that Mark could see the rare Western Bristle bird ( he heard it, didn’t see it) and we all could try for the even rarer Noisy Scrub-bird that had been thought to be extinct from the mid-1800s until it was discovered in the early sixties (if its call is so noisy, which it is, how could it have been missed for a century??)

It had been so warm lately that I didn’t wrap up enough and it was Cold out there and I stayed in the car much of the time. . We passed a field full of kangaroos which was a wonderful sight. I hope they were wild and not farmed roos, but great to see them anyway. We drove to a nearby gas station/general store and restocked for breakfast and bought some local beer and wine. Returned for breakfast about eight.

We set out for town at noon as it was too windy to do anything else. I returned to my scuba shop to blog and Mark found an internet café and then we shopped and wandered up York Street, meeting Bob, who had driven off to see more of the coastline, at the Library at two.

Stopped at a large IGA supermarket to do a major restocking and returned home. Bob and Mark walked down to the nearby bridge to look for shorebirds and I stayed in to nurse the cold I’ve had for the past week. Finally had enough time to cook the Brucato’s famous BTOR (beef tips over rice) with green beans. Bob and I sat down to eat at seven and after a bit, were joined by Mark who had become lost after driving off to check out some swamp for rails and crakes.
Good dinner, if I do say so, and afterwards, Mark managed to light the fireplace stove, which is our only heat. It’s surrounded by a fence (some kind of safety device, I guess) which make it very difficult to build a fire.
Tonight is the beginning of daylight savings, so the sun won’t come up until 6:15 - much better!