The Face of the Moon

Here's a good question for all you blogfollowers - we've already established that water flows out of sinks in the opposite direction to that back at home and revolving doors go the other way round - we've had a full moon here this week, so what do we see down under? Is it:

1. exactly the same face as in the northern hemisphere
2. the same  side upside down
3. the other side of the moon?

You can post your comment at the end of this post! I'll add up the responses and let you know who's right.

I'm a Fairy Wren!

This morning's early run in the Bayside Parklands Park over the road from where we've been staying was my last as we're moving on today. I've really enjoyed these morning runs with the dog and have rarely seen another soul. Today I spotted a pair of Superb Fairy Wrens and managed to get just a couple of yards away from them, they're bit like blue tits but with much bigger fan shaped tails which they use in their remarkable fluttering flight - they fly just like big butterflies! Also a Willy Wagtail - yes that's it's official name! These guys wag their tails from side to side, unlike wagtails back home who wag 'em up and down. And came close up to a bunch of tiny Buttonquails. Unfortunately again I had no    camera so this is a google-snap of the Fairy Wren

 Went down to the Old Cleveland Lighthouse

I see no ships.

yesterday where we saw Welcome Swallows, Pelicans,  Little Pied Cormorants and an Osprey. The Welcome Swallow is not quite the same as the swallows we have back at home but the osprey is as it's one of the few birds to be found all over the world. It's not a big lighthouse but it's a very important one and was built exactly 100 years before I was born so in Australian terms it's ancient history. Cleveland Point was a seaport set to rival Brisbane 100 years ago and tons of wool was loaded onto ocean going cargo boats here. The tall trees in the background are Norfolk pines originally only found on a Pacific Island.

Who you lookin' at?

We had some very nice ice cream and sat by the seafront scoffing pistachio and apricot sorbet. A gaggle of seagulls started to gather hopefully and this one seemed to be the leader (very noisy) as he chased the others away and stood by demanding to be fed. At least they don't do what the seagulls do in Llandudno and dive bomb you to pinch your food. This was a Silver Gull which is just about the only seagull here - whereas in the UK we have lots of different types of gull (is it the Greater Black Backed Gull or the Herring Gull which dive bombs folk outside chipshops in Llandudno?)