Friday, February 14, 2020

Frasier Island








Parts of Queensland are in the third year of drought.
Bush fires are common and radio news announcers
routinely describe threatened regions while advising
residents to "Shelter in Place, Watch and Act or
Prepare to Leave."  Frasier Island has no residents
and no such warning but here is smoke from a fire
 that burns for days or weeks at the south end.

Straddie

Views like this attract visitors who take a ferry from Brisbane.
We were here before and came more for dive opportunities
than the view.
Kookaburras land on the spreaders to sing a song of welcome
but it sounds more like they are laughing at us.  We hosted many
birds aboard but never Kookaburras.
The beach stone curlew patrols the cafés and growls at the
diners until someone throws him a chip
The sulphur crested cockatoo sounds a loud obnoxious squawk
when it flies.  We see them everywhere in Queensland.
The rainbow parakeet gathers in large noisy flocks in the
trees near sunset.
The beach stone curlew patrols the cafés and growls at the
diners until someone throws him a chip.