The Rambling Retirees: Hot, Humid, and Visitors again

The end of the month and it was certainly an interesting start to our time at Nairana. The heat and humidity has been unbearable for Mrs OGO and we have been very grateful for the small air conditioner in the bedroom. Every day the temps have been 30+ degrees before 11am and no relief in sight despite the threat of rain every afternoon.

Red-wing - regular visitor

Despite the heat the OGO has been dutifully mowing around the Homestead and the area is now looking well kept once again.

Mrs OGO has been totally frustrated with trying to access the internet via dial-up and decided after a fourth attempt and three hours of frustration that emails and the blog update would have to wait until our time in Townsville.

We continue our every day trips out into the Park and today tackled a very boggy track down to Mistake Creek . Just the little rain yesterday has made the tracks quite tricky, but we did retrieve some good size red-claw/blue-claw for our supper.

Spotted Bowerbird - all day visitor

Fellow caretakers, Col and Lynne, returned for an overnight stay on Friday, on their way through to Cairns. As promised they arrived with fresh supplies of milk and strawberry jam for our scones. We enjoyed a lovely day and evening and it was great to meet new friends with similar interests in retired life. They departed early Saturday morning with a promise to visit us in Toowoomba some time in May.

A nest or a trap? Your guess

Look what I see!

After they left we drove out to Mistake Creek to check the creek levels, as when the OGO took Col out the day before he was very surprised at the rising waters in that area. My goodness, what a surprise that was. We have never seen the creek level so high. Although there has been no rain here there has obviously been heavy rains further up stream and we were now looking at Mistake “River” not a creek. The waters are now flowing into Belyando River. We took photos and video to compare with previous photos taken in the same area.