Friday 18th October 2019. 0950-1100

No rain overnight. Sky clear apart from few fair weather cumulus clouds in the West. Hot in the sun. Track dry.

Cody busy doing the ironing today. Thomas and I met up with our neighbour who volunteers with the track maintenance crew and we crossed Lloyd’s Suspension Bridge together. Spotted a Green Ringtail Possum to the left of the bridge and stopped to watch as she climbed down onto the main suspension cable and used it to complete her crossing of the creek. On reaching the main post, she crossed to the opposite side of the bridge and then down the support cable to the Milky Pine tree. By this time we had been joined by more volunteers and students from The School for Field Studies as the possum crossed this and another tree, jumping across gaps and traversing extremely thin twigs before hiding in the canopy of a larger tree. Thomas meanwhile got his fair share of pats and strokes from the students.
After this interlude we continued on to find 2 Eastern Water Dragons on the rocks between the Memorial Bench and Snodgrass’s Pool. There were no Turtles at the Log Jam although we photographed a Brush Turkey and a Varied Triller along the bank. At last sighted a solitary Platypus at the narrows but she was being quite antisocial. Managed to take a few shots when she paused on the surface for a scratch but she then hid under a fallen log for several minutes to complete her toilet. After emerging she vanished. Sighted the back of another Green Ringtail Possum just before the Highway Bridge and introduced a young couple from Germany. The only Turtle seen today was from the Platypus viewing Platform. Another pair of Bush Stone Curlews with one chick were in the paddock next to the Medical Centre.