Really good weekend, I was a bit apprehensive when we arrived on friday night, the rain hadn't stopped from when I had picked Cyclingrelf up from the airport, it let up enough that setting up our hammocks wasn't to much of a chore, a short cut I took was to come back to haunt me later tho.
Once we were set up we joined the guys, for something to eat and a refreshing beverage, the blackcurrent? vodka Shewie brought up was superb.
Most of us had an early night, for me I was woken about 2 am with my tarp loose and pushing against my hammock, the short cut had failed, no choice but to get out of a warm hammock and fix it
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Saturday morning and a very rare occurrence, I was first up :yikes: Shewie joined me shortly after and we enjoyed a morning brew.
Cyclingrelf took lots of photos of the Wallabies we came across so I'll let her tell that story, we had a really good day, the sky was clear blue, with a few clouds, and with sunset approaching we decide to canoe down to the south end of the island to photograph it.
It was real pity there weren't enough clouds around to do it justice
The moonrise made up for it tho, apologies for the fuzzy photos
We paddled back had a good dinner, a few more beverages, and another earlyish night.
I had planned to get up before dawn and watch and photograph the sunrise, I woke just as the sky lightened and just lay and watched the colours change.
Cyclingrelf wandered past around 7, 7:30 and Shewie was up the at the same time as I.
Shewie being sensible put the kettle on, and I wandered along the beach into the growing light to watch the sun rise
Two adult swans and their broad came around the corner into the cove to join us, it was a magical moment, the two adults displaying
And then they left the way they had came
Sunrise
Smoke on the water (from our fire)
After breakfast, with Grooveski and Stuart still slumbering, Shewie went for a paddle, Cyclingrelf worked on carving a spoon and I went tracking deer, (the guys had seen them on friday including a white stag), I headed South and soon spotted Wallabies sunning themselves, but no deer, I ended up back at the cove we paddled to the previous evening
The morning sun making simple things look amazing
Still waters
The Scots pine I photographed the moon thru the previous night
Bracken
Amazing burls on this Scots pine
I did in the end find a couple of does, I had my video camera with me, I took some footage, but it then in a LOUD voice told me the battery was running low, I heard a bark and the two does were gone.
I need to sort out my video footage, more to come.
