Saturday, June 18, 2011

Fighting lyre birds












Today we took our car for a long drive. We filled it up with petrol and Chinese girls and then drove to Kiama. We didn't take the obvious route. Instead we went inland, got lost (our GPS is completely useless), saw the giant potato, drove down very windy roads (which necessitated winding the windows down for one of our guests to be sick) and ended up at the Minnamurra rainforest. We went for a walk and spotted about 10 lyre birds. The first was just scrabbling around in the bushes. Then we went around the corner and saw a whole flock of them fighting each other, raising their spectacular tails and flying incredibly fast. I didn't even know that they could fly. They looked like small pterodactyls swooping around. It was amazing!!

A few hours later, we got back into the car and drove into Kiama. It was a beautiful day!! Lots of pelicans. The blow hole was blowing. The chips were tasty. Then we drove home and got stuck in a few traffic jams.

1 comment:

Amor said...

Enjoy that day very much, thank you jiao zi for driving that long way~