Friday 1st November 2019. 1400 – 1510

No rain. Overcast with occasional sunny periods. Fitful light breeze, strengthening later. Track dry.

Thomas in fine fettle today having reverted to his choke chain instead of that pansy harness! A Bush Stone-curlew looked at us pitifully through the chain link fence of the Police Station and remained motionless as usual. The Golden Orb-weaver remains in the same spot but the Brushtail Possum had moved on today. An Eastern Water Dragon was on a different rock today between the Memorial Bench and Snodgrass’s Pool. A Turtle surfaced as we were passing Platypus Bend. A Green Ringtail Possum was roosting on a branch of the Casuarina Tree between there and Log Jam Peninsula and were able to show her to an English couple spending a year in Australia. While chatting, they spotted a Freshwater Snake which I was able to photograph. Only one Saw-shelled Turtle at the Log Jam today and no Platypus seen. There were a number of Magpie Geese in the paddocks behind the Car Park.