Wattamolla reopens
If you’ve been hankering for a bush walk recently, you’ll have noticed that many National Parks have been temporarily closed. There’s been a lot of damage after the wild weather. I finally was able to get back to beautiful and recently reopened Wattamolla over the weekend.
The road into the Royal is still really bad, lots of buckling, a fair few potholes that are hard to see with the dappled light and trees down. But it’s totally worth the effort. The Royal really is a special place.
Check on the National Parks site for local alerts any time you are planning on venturing into a park, especially now.
You can read all about my Wattamolla adventures (and misadventure) here.
All aboard the echidna love train
File this under: "Things I have always wanted to see, have never seen and cause me to turn green with envy whenever someone else posts about seeing this." Catchy title, huh?
From mid-winter to about spring, love is in the air for echidnas. The thought of squishy little puggles (that’s baby echidnas for the uninitiated) makes my heart sing and my ovaries ache. They’re seriously adorable.
Echidna trains are fascinating and frankly, I’m always thrilled to spot one echidna. If I ever get to witness several together you’ll hear me screaming from well, wherever you are. But that’s the beauty of the echidna train. Males will follow a female around, often nose to tail, hence the term train, for hours, for days or even, for weeks. They’ll feed together and rest together and there might be a little argy bargy but all in all, it’s a fairly polite process and the last echidna standing is the winner. The prize of course, is getting to mate with the female. Have you ever seen a train in the wild?
Second Supermoon on NOW
If you’re reading this on Wednesday 13th or Thursday 14th July, drop everything and get outside NOW. Well, not now. Not unless it’s around sunset. And if it is, definitely get outside to check out the moonrise.
This is the second, and the last, Supermoon for 2022 and well worth a look. Dr Brad Tucker has this great video explaining exactly what makes the Supermoon super.
