Monday 26th August 2019. 1305-1410

1 mm rain to 0700. Bright and sunny. Moderate gusty wind. Track dry.

Started well with male Australian Brushturkey wating for us at The Other Side. Within a few metres there is a memorial seat just upstream of the Stepping Stones and a Platypus was feeding right in front of it. A Saw-shelled Turtle on a shady rock was ignoring the whole thing. The solitary Green Ringtail Possum was in the same spot opposite Sodgrass’s Pool but remained very difficult to see and photograph. A few metres past Platypus Bend Thomas found a moderately large Saw-shelled Turtle lying in the middle of the path in full sun. He was definitely alive when disturbed but mad no effort to escape to the water and I recalled about a week ago seeing a turtle which appeared unable to dive very close to this location. This decided me to carry it home where my next door neighbour is a Wildlife Carer. Encumbered by a struggling turtle I found it difficult to concentrate on further observations but did glimpse another platypus and 3 shy turtles at the Log Jam. Several visitors were interested to see a Dachshund and a Turtle being taken for a walk.