Sunday 10th January 2021. 1600 – 1700

Weather

24 mm of rain in gauge. Sunny with high stratus cloud early. Overcast later with few spots of rain around 1700 hrs. No significant breeze. Track remains wet but has dried a little and slightly less mud.
Water level dropped about 250 mm since yesterday.

Post

Grass in desperate need of cutting which occupied most of morning and recovery time needed for watching cricket.
Made a late start along Creek and was rewarded with a view of “Mrs Green” the Green Ringtail Possum with joey but today in the tree with the mistletoe yesterday occupied by a Brushtail Possum. Introduced them to a large family group of visitors.
Near Snodgrass’s Pool a moderately sized but well marked Eastern Water Dragon was occupying one of the trackside rocks.
A Saw-shelled Turtle was climbing up a branch of the recently fallen tree.
Nothing else was seen until I obtained a rear view of another Turtle along The Narrows.
I had almost given up when I spotted waves radiating from South bank of the Platypus Viewing Pool and was soon joined by a mob of tourists.
A Platypus remained in the partly inundated grass for around 10 minutes while it foraged and scratched intermittently revealing glimpses of itself from time to time.
I fired off a number of random shots including a couple as it was emerging from the grass when I ran out of battery power.
To my amazement the first of these appears to show the neck band while the second suggests a groove running behind the right foreleg as suggested by a previous image.
Lady Luck certainly seems to be with us as we endeavor to keep tabs on “Ringneck”!