Outings and Outlooks

 This includes our visits to the Book Fair and Kelly's Swamp as well as some views from our apartment.

This group of cars on the roof of the Target carpark intrigued us.  It turns out they are Teslas and the Canberra dealership is somewhere on Bunda St.  Possibly a cheap place to park your stock.  I am still surprised there are so many available when most other brands have 6 -12 month waiting lists.
As the muppets running Floriade have blocked off Commonwealth Park we are going through Reid on our morning walks, This is a very pleasant thing to do, especially with some flowering street trees.
And some flowering garden trees.
The weather hadn't improved by the time we got home.  (As I type, I think back to January 2020 when the view was similarly, or worse, restricted but due to bushfire smoke rather than water vapour.)
So our second outing was to EPIC to visit the Lifeline Book Fair.  The main arena would probably have caused Thelwell to come over all unnecessary.  My question is why aren't all these kids at school?  Have I missed the start of the holidays (no - they start on 24 September)?
The event itself was crowded by people who like standing in walkways, but not as badly as in some previous years.
I know the organisation is run by volunteers but putting an Oliver Sachs book in the humour section is really a display of ignorance.  Had that not distracted me I might have bought the "Barry Trotter" book just from curiosity.  We ended with two shopping trolleys full.
Our next stop was Kelly's Swamp to try for Bird of the Day.  That became relatively easy when another bird gave us directions to a Tawny Frogmouth nest.

We then spotted a lot of members of the Heron family: Straw-necked Ibis; Australian White Ibis (Bin Chook) and Cattle Egrets.
Some views from the apartment, mainly of the clouds as dusk approached.


A skein of Australian White Ibis passed by on their way to their overnight roost.
More evening clouds.


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