Thursday 3rd October 2019. 1300-1400

Occasional light showers. Cloudy with intermittent sunny periods. Strong , gusty SE wind. Track dry.

First Platypus Patrol for several weeks without sighting a single Platypus. Fortunately plenty of other activity so still have some photos to show you. First signs of life were 2 Eastern Water Dragons occupying different rocks but in the same area between the Memorial Bench and Snodgrass’s Pool. Another Water Dragon was observing the Log Jam from an elevated position on the far bank and supervising 5 Saw-shelled Turtles including one juvenile. Thomas and I showed them to a German Swiss couple with a relative who lives in Australia and was also able to introduce one of the young Green Ringtail Possum who was today in the 3rd of the Overhanging Bushes. A Bush Stone-curlew greeted me from the front of my garden and a Pacific Emerald Dove was decorating the back yard.