Monday 4th November 2019. 1400 – 1455

No rain. Overcast and humid. Light breeze. Track dry.

Cody again feeling fragile. Thomas and I observed a distant Bush Stone-curlew in one of the gardens along Bunya Street and then checked out the Golden Orb -weaver Spider at Allumbah Pocket. No Possums around today. An Eastern Water Dragon was on the usual rock across the track from the Memorial Bench. Between there and Snodgrass’s Pool a Freshwater Snake swam along with us for some distance. Four Turtles were sun bathing at the Log Jam while two more were in the water. A Platypus was digging in the far bank in the Narrows and had collected a small crowd of people and a forest of long lenses . He swam across the creek and resumed the antisocial behaviour before crossing the creek again and vanishing behind a curtain of overhanging roots. A juvenile Water Dragon was on a rock under the Highway Bridge and a large Eastern Water Skink came to join it. The family of Bush Stone-curlews were favouring another clump of Golden Cane Palm in the block next to The Doctor House.