dragon babies!

eastern water dragons apparently think a pile of blue metal dust makes a great spot to lay eggs! unfortunately the pile they chose had to be spread out under the house leaving a couple of clutches in want of a new nest.. we obliged with some dust in a styrofoam box, kept warm in the sun and under a lamp, and were soon the proud surrogate parents of some very cute baby water dragons!! they all made it back out into the garden healthy and unharmed (although one had a little adventure around the laundry first!) and we can only hope that they remain so... very special!

life in the garden..

some wierd and wonderful critters in the garden.... and a beautiful little green thumb in the making!!

lismore floods - jan 08

engulfed in the blissful sunny world of bawley pt and family over christmas, we were only vaguely aware that it had been raining constantly in our home town of lismore, over a 1000kms to the north, the whole time. so it came as a bit of a shock when i received an alert sms from lismore city council informing me that there was minor flooding expected the day before we were due to drive home! needless to say we hot-tailed it out of there for a very quick overnighter, the expected flood levels rising with each new alert! we arrived home to fabulous, if dirty brown, water views, the only kind which de-value a property!! we managed to get anything valuable to us upstairs and out of harm's way quickly so we could then just sit back and watch the show! and what a show - the little creek next to the house backed up and filled half the yard, the wetland across the road became a vast, brown swirling sea, and the rain just kept falling!! tom paddled the kayak out from the side of the road, across the floodwaters and back into our garden! ella even had a little immunizing splash in our new backyard "pond"! eventually the rain eased, the waters subsided and we were treated to the charming stench of rotting vegetation for the following week! we had survived unscathed...this time! ahhh, life in a foodplain town!! k

a very bawley christmas!

we were lucky enough to spend ella's first christmas down at glorious bawley point with loads of family. she had such a fun time and all the cousins adored, and were great, with her. thankfully she didn't even get too spoiled - only with love, which you can never have too much of! we went for a couple of swims everyday, enhancing our beautiful girl's already existing love of the water, and managed lots of adventures on land too! a fab time had by all....