This is very different vegetation to my usual walks - grass trees, silver banksias, open grasslands It was way too early to make camp for the night and the shorter walk to the birdhide seemed a bit too tame. Though I like birds, I am not really a twitcher - I probably don't have the patience, and no bird I have ever seen looks like those in my Simpson and Day. I put on my boots and my old painting jeans and started walking beneath arches of Silver Banksia in the direction of Archer’s Knob, a lookout in the Eastern Section of the Park. It’s a fairly easy walk, mostly through coastal scrub, sandy underfoot and occasionally across swampy ground bridged by a boardwalk. The lagoon with the birdhide lies to my right and to the right of that is cleared ground. Higher hills lie beyond. View from the Birdhide My feet make no noise on the soft sandy track. I admire the scenery and startle the occasional pademelon sending it skittering through the bush. Th...
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