Cromer House Warwick

After breakfast, we packed up- takes about an hour - and headed off. <br><br>At Warwick we filled with diesel and did the numbers to find we are travelling at 10 1/2 kms per Litre and we are happy with that.<br><br>Quick trip to the supermarket and we are out of here<br>

I am excited. I didn't sleep that well last night. Not because I was excited about leaving but because I was more paranoid about sleeping through my alarm. Which is usually a daily occurance for me. I opened shop this morning. I'm not really in the mood to work. I guess its understandable. I was thinking last night, I don't think I'm going to miss work :) So my plans for the day.... I finish work at 2 pm. Exactly ...

So, to say the least, camera season has not gone off as smoothly as had been hoped. The beginning of the camera season, normally marks a stark change in the daily lives of all those involved in the Wallaby Creek Satin Bowerbird Project. Instead of doing a morning route, checking tiles in some side experiments, as we have been doing, we are expected to travel around and maintain an array of cameras at each of our five or six assigned bowers, as well as take ...

Day 44 (37 at Wallaby Creek) This has been an eventful week. Our normal schedule of awaking to either sit and trap or bower search for five and a half hours was thrown off during Dr. Borgia's visit by both the addition of another person to the already chaotic kitchen in the morning and the extra task he set us of undertaking bower ornamentation experiments. Since the doc's departure on Wednesday morning, we have settled into a new routine of arising early to ...

Day 32 (25 at Wallaby Creek) October 7, 2007 Since I am here at Wallaby Creek to study the satin bowerbird for three and a half months, it is probably a good thing that I find them very interesting. Having never been an avid bird watcher before coming to Australia, I must now admit that I understand completely why so many people are. Since I am daily given the task of watching birds for five hours in the morning, either ...

Day 30 (23 at Wallaby Creek) October 5, 2007 Even in a modern world, to find yourself in a wild, untamed land such as my current place of inhabitance, is to encounter superstition and fear set newly aflame in recesses of your waking mind you thought had been well and thoroughly extinguished since adolescence. In the depths of night, leaps of blazing illogicality are made as the mind bumbles in the dark for some ...

Day 22 (15 at Wallaby Creek) September 27, 2007 The sun rose three hours late today. Despite the urge crying out from every scrap of my being to follow suit and sleep in, I instead roused myself out of my tent into a light rain in the early dawn. The weather would gradually clear up, the clouds blowing off before noon, the sun suddenly emanating a portentous heat signifying the imminent departure of these unloved wintry mornings ...

Day 14 (7 at Wallaby Creek) September 19, 2007 Today has been a great day for a few reasons. One, we only had to trap for two hours because Linda had to go into Warwick to pick up the two new girls and therefore couldn't band the birds we caught. Two, it meant I got to spend the day being handiman - fixing the propane stove that wasn't distributing the gas properly, building a small dam in the creek for capturing dishwater, and ...

*Backdated-I will have access to the internet once a week from now on, for approximately 30 minutes, so I will probably post every 5th or 6th entry, which may not make a lot of sense, but we'll see how it goes..." Day 8 (1st at Wallaby Creek) What an amazing place I am to spend the next 3 ½ months of my life! We packed my gear into the car and headed toward Brisbane at quarter of nine. An hour and a half later we were having coffee ...

... quiet sanctuary. I'm loving the peace and quiet, waking in the morning to the birds singing, the sunshine, contact with nature, spending time with the kids (they are the most well behaved kids I've ever known...Fiona is teaching me a lot about parenting) and loads of time for reading, relaxing and playing my guitar. I am even getting used to the vegetarian diet...I've had no meet for over a week now. After my first week here, I am in no hurry to rush off.