Day 302 | Jay Creek: cooking by gas
Larapinta Day 4
Plenty of bird song in the early morning, dawn slow to start now autumn’s in full swing, even a few Port Lincoln ringneck parrots, budgies, etc.
During the day zebra finches, bright red beaks, with some zebra on the folded wings, predominate, I flush out some native quail type species almost standing on them, later, a black kite, alone, sings an anxious note as if searching for a lost mate. Aren’t we all.
The rain 5 weeks ago has created a landscape in full bloom, plenty of food out here, the buffel grass overladen with seeds, even a stray dingo’s early morning howl.
Highlight of the day: the frog plague at Spring Gap.
The pond too small for fish to eat the tadpoles so when I went down to the water each footstep had an explosion of 5 or so little fingernail sized frogs, remarkably camouflaged, ricocheting off in all directions.
There were hundreds of the minute critters, I beat a slow retreat.
6 50 pm, almost pitch dark. 27ºC.