Friday 15th June Lake Stretch
Lake Stretch is in the Paruku Indigenous
Protected Area and is a unique environment of more or less permanent water. It
is one of the significant sites of inland wetlands. The Paruku Lakes system
support at least 73 species of waterbirds and provide a stopover for migrant
shorebirds. It supports the largest breeding colony of little black cormorants
in Australia. Lots of them here at the moment. The latest archaeological data,
the lakes have supported the indigenous people for over 21 000 years. Lake
Stretch (Nyarna) is a regular swimming hole for the children at Billiiluna and
a number of children were swimming here yesterday.
It is a bird watcher’s paradise. Many Kites flying
overhead and nested in the trees. I thought they were black shouldered kites,
but the Letterwing Kite resides here. This morning, Gail, a lady from
Newcastle, who is travelling the same way and I went off with our cameras and
found a Sacred Kingfisher.
Quite cloudy and we have had a few drops of
rain. Marvelous what a few hundred kilometers does to the temperature!!! 31
degrees yesterday. Out with the flannos and on with the summer clothes.
Made another damper today and this time it
was a success!!Yeah!!!
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