Bellarine Rail trail, Leopold

 Oddly, I've only seen this yellow lichen on the Leopold section of the walk, where for about 2-3 kilometers it is extremely prevalent.

 The flowes seemed darker in real like than the photograph, but who's to say the technology behind my eyes is working? We only saw the one of these.

Maybe the word "former" could as well appear elsewhere in this sign. farmland behind, but subdivision surely not far away.

Reedy Lake - February

 Above is the view from the entrance at Moolap Station Rd - left you can see a detail of the above foreground, with enough of the black, cracked soil to be reminded of what the whole place looked like 2 months ago. In my lawn I call the red-tendrilled things 'weeds' but here it's easy to see their value and their beauty.

In the top picture you can also see the different effect our (very early autumn) rain has had on the two different species of reed: one still brown topped, the other almost luminescent with new young foliage.

Here I've tried to capture the different zones of foliage; reinforced by history, by water level, by subsoil salt patterns, I don't know. There's quite a variation in height - maybe as much as 2-3 metres across the whole of the lake, which is enough to make  significant differences.

I think this is rainwater, captured quite a way away from the above pictures, in an areas where there hasn't ben much re-vegetation.

Sadly, it's also oil.

Hard to photograph birds with a small camera and shaky hands. I think these two are partners. Getting ready for the shooting season in three weeks.

This lot is different. I have no idea, close up the picture isn't good enough for me to tell.

The most amazing birds looked to me like swifts (based on the tail) although I didn't know we had swifts. There was a strong wind at water level and they were having a lot of fun flying into it & then allowing themselves to be blown back for another try.

But too quickly for my camera, I think.

Lake Connewarra

Lake Connewarra, looking west-south-west towards the entrance of the Barwon

 I heard a rumour that the land on the point is public, but access is through the farm. I feel I want to have more than a rumour before wandering down there. You can see the farm & home paddock gets a spot more water than the rest of the property. Possibly you can make out the swans...

The camera doesn't have the lens for this sort of photography. There is a lot of bird life on this lake. Next time we'll bring the binoculars. This spot is the perfect spot to launch a canoe from, and the lake is so shallow that there's no risk of motor boats.