Late afternoon yesterday on a lazy Easter Sunday and as I look through the back window I see this billowing, voluminous cloud towering into the sky.It is tinged with pink as it is nearing sunset. Looks as though it is going to be beautiful over Pelican Lake. Quick let’s get there. Grab the camera and come on…
It is spectacular this evening.
A boat heads for shore leaving a trail of ripples in its wake.The fisherman comes over to the lakes edge. I get evening entertainment as he expertly casts the net.Then drags it in.
He has a good haul of whitebait wriggling and frantically jumping.He tells me he is going to use them for live bait to catch Mangrove Jack. When I ask him where he fishes. He grins and says “I’m not going to tell you that”.
He threw the net about 4 times and I took a short video. Just listen to the background noise, it is dozens of Rainbow Lorikeets feeding in the gum trees behind me. Also watch for the neighbour over the back fence enjoying his glass of wine or possibly beer…
The gum trees are in full flower and the Lorikeets are way up in the top feeding voraciously. I take photo after photo. The camera is extended on full zoom and hard to hold steady so I am amazed when I download and see this one I caught.Time to go home and as I turn look what the sky is doing over the ocean.That hi-rise is about 1 kilometre away on the beach front and that is a lovely soft iridescent semi rainbow behind it. The bats are on their way out to feed and the Lorikeets roost for the night in the Norfolk pines along the beach front.
So all is well in this part of the world. The Commonwealth Games torch has reached the Gold Coast, after going all round the world, and is being carried around the suburbs, tomorrow, Tuesday it will be passing through Burleigh, then on Wednesday the Games will begin. I do hope all goes well for them and the weather stays fine.
That gum tree is interesting, but I do not recognize the species.
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I have no idea what species it is either, we have so many over here….
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If I did not live here after seeing your blog I would be moving here.
Like all the photos and your story line is good.
You caught those birds well in the hi rise photo and the Rainbow Lorikeet eating nectar. 😎
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It is a good place to live
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Very beautiful pictures. I love the rainbow one and how you describe there being bat’s and lorikeets
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Thank you it was a lovely sunset and just down the road from where I live
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I am so envious
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Such a beautiful sky, great photos, Pauline.
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Thanks Ruth
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What a gorgeous sunset, and I love the video with the Lorikeets chirping and the fisherman casting his net.
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Thanks Cathy it was an interesting sunset
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If I see a good sunset approaching I have to head steadily uphill, and I often can’t be bothered, Pauline. I do love them, though. 🙂 🙂
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I think you’ll be showing us plenty when you get to the Algarve…
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I was fascinated by your capture of the upside down lorikeet.
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That one was a fluke, pure luck I was just pointing and shooting.
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Sometimes those give the best results!
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and the most satisfying…
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Gorgeous sunset and love the rainbow!
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I got quite a surprise when I turned round to go home after concentrating on the western sky to see that beautiful sky in the east over the ocean
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Beautiful Pauline, is there such a thing as the southern lights?
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Yes there are but not here. They sometimes get them in Tasmania
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I really want to move there, such a beautiful and interesting place! What we got here is raining, raining, raining…
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Yes you have had a very tough and cold winter this year. Hopefully spring is on the way
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I loved the Lorikeet, and the fishing net being cast out. Great timing for you both.
Wasn’t that a woman drinking a beer? I didn’t think it looked like a man. 🙂 Loved the video too!
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On looking closer yes it was a woman and I think it was a wine glass…. 🍷
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[…] the lake looking west toward the setting sun (I have often posted sunset views over Pelican Lake, see here and here) And I walked, briskly, 1 kilometre along the street, to the east and the ocean. What […]
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[…] moment.This is the Lake at the end of the street that has often featured in sunset shots (here and here) I sat for a while and absorbed the calm, peaceful view. I was not the only one enjoying the moment […]
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