Birds and flowers

This area is full of birds of all descriptions, mostly sea birds and they sit on all available structures, These cormorants looked rather as if they were waiting to be sent off fishing.
The clouds have been incredible.
We have seen quite a few emus but I have been too slow with the camera.
D'Arry came back yesterday with a huge snapper so he was pleased. John thought about 10 kilos, no one else caught anything.
The wonderful flowering shrub is a Templotonia or cockys beak, comes in various colours of red and orange. They are all over the National park and are just coming into flower. I imagine when they are all in flower they would be magnificent.
Our last day here so no blogging until I get home. Packing up to day as we hope to get off early tomorrow.
Too short a time as usual.

Pelicans and a dusty sunset

There are lots of pelicans around. I love watching these huge birds fly and come in to land, like aircraft but never seem to be ni the right place to catch them so ones in the water will have to do, although they dont look as big or as spectacular.
Yesterday was very warm for this time of the year and also very windy which blew up a lot of dust so the sunset last night was spectacular, couldnt resist a photo again!.
John took me off to farm that is not far away that has opened a small cafe to have pancackes and cofee and look at the antiques they have. As well as that they sell fresh pork from their black pigs so are doing reasonably well in an area that can be hard to make a living from the land.
As it was so windy the boat didnt go out.
I spent a lot of the day trying to fix the muddle I had made on my knitted band of the jacket I am doing, for some reason I always have problems with moss stitch.

In Coffin Bay National Park

Four of us went out into the park this morning to a place called
golden Island
beach and while the others walked miles my aching knees only allowed so much so I took photos, beach combed and did some tiny paintings in the really good little sketchbook I bought at Dick Blick in San Francisco.
These are some of the photos I took, the sandhills showing in the back ground of this magnificent beach and the rocks and islands showing right at the end.
We went back for soup and tea at one of the girls lovely shack and then up to the spinning and knitting groups get together, they are a great group and always interested in what I have to tell them.
Home to prepare for the 13 for dinner, scrounging tables and chairs and extra cutlery.
We had corned beef and mustard sauce with vegetables and quinces baked slowly in the oven with cream and or icecream. Oh and we started with smoked fish and oysters, olives and smoked salmon on cream cheese and biscuits.
Mary is a magnificent cook.
I set the table and collected the flowers and scrubbed the quinces, stirred the sauce and served up!

Morning Photos

Suddenly we had clear skies and sunshine so I walked out of the house and took these photos. You can see how clear the water is, and the view down the channel to the fishing and oyster grounds.
Yesterday we went to the big morning tea and spent a bit of money, I bought a large pot of
alstromeria, for the princeley sum of $4! John will have a fit about getting it home.
Today we are walking in the morning and we have 13 in for dinner tonight.
I have started on a jacket for me, I am not sure if my knitting is up to the pattern but we will see. If it is I will just do it differently.

Ships and cat

I notice that I have made spelling mistakes in my last two captions! Sorry but this keyboard is tiny and difficult to see.
I made the cat for a bit of fun. The bird was supposed to be his head but was far too big so became a bird. Great fun to do when you have no pattern and just wing it. All had sewing, shows whar I can do if I try.
We walked along the oyster walk yesterday to have a coffee, about a half hour walk there from where we are staying and gorgeous, all alomg the edge of the bay. There were lots of boats in the bay and around the wharf area, both pleasure boats and fishing. I would show lots more but this little computer times out if I try to load more.
I must go down and take photos of the oyster boats but they are always in a hurry, it is a huge industry here with very clean and pristine waters and the oysters are magnificent.

A small jumper ans a sunset

Here is the small jumper I have finished for Mason, as you can see I ran out of wool so it is a fun jumper with odd arms. I was rather pleased with it.
We had spectacular clouds and the sunset last night got even better than this but I was called in to help with dinner. My job is to crumb the fish.
We went in to Pt Lincoln yesterday to get a few supplies and I wanted some more beads if I could find them. Had a coffee on the sea front and some soup later for lunch. We were really branching out!
I have had no time to sketch, and we are invited out today for coffee so the day will run away again.

Suid and water

I really love the beauty of this place. It has been so peaceful.
Not doing a lot, but it has been so nice to just relax and play.
I have made a really gorgeous crazy soft cat. I saw one some one hd done in I think, Cloth Paper & Scissors and thought it would be fun to make one not using my sewing machine. Any way its not quite finished, so what with walking and sewing not much more has been done.
The line up of squid heads was the result of yesterday's carch. They were so proud of them!
I am still having a few problems loading too many photos but today I did manage to get 2 up.