Water hole

While home in Western Australia we found some time for a small  bush walk to visit a water hole not too far from the farm and created in rocks by recent unseasonal rains.  My brother has a sensor camera which he sets up in different places around the area to take photos of wildlife.  He has some wonderful photos of wildlife coming to drink at this particular waterhole including brozewing pigeons, galahs, 28 parrots (the name for them not the number of parrots, kangaroos and a goanna.   Here are a few photos from our walk.

On top of the rocky outcrop and looking over nearby farmland.

The sensor camera is placed under two rocks near the water hole in the middle left of the photo.

The pink section in the photo is tiny little flowers.

Rock formations.

A cluster of trees in the rocks.  One of the trees in the foreground has mistletoe (lighter green foliage) growing in it.  Information about Australian mistletoe can be found here.

Dragonflies were everywhere.

A callistemon native to the area adding a splash of colour.

Interesting line formations in the rock.  Genevieve gave me a fabulous geological explanation for how these were formed.  Having done geo science at uni this past year, she was very well informed.

Lichen growing on granite rocks.

We had a wonderful time walking in this area, it was lovely to sit down for a while and take in the smell of the bush and listen and watch for bird life.

Anne xx