Here she is hurtling up to the finish in her third Yarrabilba parkrun (I'm there in the background!) Still early in the morning as you can see by the long shadows. Yarrabilba has been a lovely low key event with friendly folk. Sarah Connor runs a well organised parkrun, it all seems to go smoothly and she exudes supreme self confidence and enthusiasm (although I noticed she grabbed Pat, her husband, as he crossed the line to carry on with the time keeping!)
Next week I think we're doing Southbank which is a city centre parkrun with lots of runners - and apparently has got some steps in it!!
So this is where the idea of hang gliding came from - we got a shock this afternoon at the sheer size of flying foxes at Mount Tamborine. We took a walk around the rain forest park and encountered a vast colony of these big blighters roosting in the gum trees - must have been hundreds of them and they were just beginning to wake up - eeek! They have a wingspan of up to a metre but fortunately do not have any vampiristic tendencies. Australians have a mixed attitude towards them partly because they carry diseases fatal to horses (and potentially to humans.) However flying foxes are a vulnerable species and under threat due to a variety of problems. The conservationists are on the case rest assured and when they come across abandoned youngsters they will look after them as can be seen in the photo below!
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