Last weekend, Neil and Tanky had to do their duty and help with the gardening, which meant collecting and moving lots of palm fronds ready for burning.
Updates for the week, are the biggest spider sighting, so far. I carefully tip toed into the garage to get something while joking with my Dad about spiders to be greeted by a huntsman about 5 inches in diameter, you could hear the scream from miles around. Neil was much braver and after photographing it, he caught it and put it outside(as the garage is attached to the house with a spider size gap under the ajoining door, I insisted it should be removed!)
Last weekend, I was very ambtious and managed another sunrise again, we headed south to Military jetty, as we didn't actually see the sun rise there last time. Neil got a couple of lovely shots but the trouble with Queensland is everybody gets up early which meant even at 4.30am there were people on the jetty which stoppped him getting many shots.
We took some more coastal shots at Shelly Beach which is just north before calling it a day, all that hard work and it was only 6am!
We have offically hit the rainy season with a bang, not that we have a proper rainy season like North Qld. But for a whole week it has hardly stopped raining! Living in a country with tin roofs and torrential rain make for a very noisy combination especially when it rains through the night! So far this week we've had 7 inches of rain, the swimming pool is overflowing!
On Wednesday, there was a break in the rainfall and the sun made an apperance so we headed down to the Maroochy River which is about 15 minute drive to photograph the fishing jetties, cool photos but not very romantic as I had heard a rumour it was actually Valentines day!
We have had a quiet weekend, going to some local markets yesterday and out on a scenic drive inland today, we were going to do a gravel forest drive to see if an hour of bumpy roads could start labour but when we got there the track was closed due to rain, back to the drawing board!
When we got back Neil took some shots around the garden of the exotic plants and a heavily pregnant women lurking on the front lawn!
Almost sure there will be baby news next time, don't forget to leave comments on the blog as long as they don't mention the size of my belly!
3 comments:
You know you're married to a true photographer when he photographs a 5 inch spider before moving it to the garden. :)
Eeek don't want to see any of those monster spiders when we come over in August! Have booked our flights to Oz - arriving 1st Aug can't wait! Based in Sydney but travelling to Cairns - maybe can meet up? You look very well and sounds like you've settled in well - hope Bradley arrives soon keep us posted! Take care, Carla x
Cath you look great, I won’t mention how big your tummy looks though. Good luck with the last few week(s), can't wait to receive photos and hear all about it. Will give you a call when Bradley is born. Do you have a cell so we can txt you? Take care. Nadia, Aidan and Hailee xxx
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