Colleen and I had a great day yesterday with seeing all 12 Bruny endemics! The day was a long one and the last walk was through a rainforest area like Ecuador. It was full of ferns that were eight feet high and a small creek along the mountain side. We hiked it for a chance of seeing the Bushtit and WE DID. It was not hot so it was a long but easy hike but it was the leeches that were really annoying. They were falling down on us from the foliage!
Gaters would not have helped at all but they fell and tried to get through my socks and on my head and I had them on my face. Thankfully we kept taking good looks at each other to remove the leeches. Leeches do not hurt or bite as they release an pain reliever to bite but this also stops your blood from coagulation, so a lot of leeches is not a good idea. Anyways, it was fine. We said our goodbyes and went back to Lunanna where each of us shook our clothes out and took hot hot showers to get any leeches off of us.
We had an excellent day and because we suggested another way out on a seashore trail we took a path where we came across one of the highlights of the day, a leucistic Wallaby, he/she was a ghostly white that was spectacular. Colleen and I both took many photos and for some reason he did not move for quite a while, so we got several photos of him. Usually the Wallabies are very quick to take off into the bush.
It started pouring rain last night and this morning we drove through moderate rain onto the ferry back to Hobart and then the rain got really heavy.
We spent the rest of the day around Hobart and are staying in a motel fairly close to the Hobart Airport as we have a 6:00 am flight to Melbourne tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow, a birdingpal is meeting us at the airport and we are going to the Melbourne Lagoons, Weerabee, which are famous for the birds, plants and animals. Richard Nowotny, our birding pal has been very gracious in offering to pick us up and take us to Weerabee and we are very excited to see the birds in Melbourne. Richard's graciousness includes a stay in his and his wife's guest suite in the Melbourne home which is great. We leave for Christchurch, NZ the next morning. So a busy couple of days again. We have to get to sleep early tonight as we have to leave here around 4:30 am.
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