A fleeting visit.

 If I was to say "flying visit" people might think I had contributed to the Alan Joyce Memorial Fund but he doesn't fly to Mallacoota.  So this was a quick zip up to Canberra on 30 November and back on 1 December.  

This photo was mainly taken as an aide memoire to recount the annoyance at the Genoa roadworks where the horny sons of toil usually close the road if there is anyone in hiviz within about 50m of the road.  On this occasion they had left it open while two large machines drove down the road, with traffic coming towards us overtaking.  If the small blue car hadn't done an emergency stop I think there would have been a great unpleasantness.

On a happier note Forests NSW have built a new dunny at Imlay Creek.  Note the log truck barelling down the road in the background.
We couldn't spot a track to the rock pool so bush bashed through this..
The creek was running nicely.
Then we looked a little to the West and there was a nice wide gravel path!  somewhat to the side of where the track used to go, but their heart is in the right place even if the track isn't.
After a trundle down the road - or indeed up the road we got to Canberra and called in at Kelly's Swamp to try to get a Bird of the Day,  There much fecundity evident:  Eurasian Coot
Australian Swamphen (no idea why the chick kept waving its proto-wings around).

Dusky Moorhan

and Australasian Grebe.
After doing what was needed in Canberra we headed back on the Wednesday morning.  To out some variety in the trip we visited the Platypus Reserve at Bombala.  We were not troubled by any monotremes but the Reserve is pretty good.

We noticed a massive building near the turnoff to the Reserve with Dongwha on the gate.  It turns out they are a timber processing business. https://www.dongwha.com/au/dongwha/dongwha.asp.


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