Lunchtime for an Azure Kingfisher

Photo courtesy of Lyn Hardwood, owner of Riverbed Cottage. If you're looking for a relaxing holiday close to nature, you can't go past this place. Alan and I love it, and if it were closer to home we'd be there every second weekend . All our Gipsy Point photos were taken while staying there.

Globe Alley, Melbourne VIC

Inspired by Julie at Sydney Eye, I retrieved these photos of Globe Alley, Melbourne (taken December 2005 on a pocket camera) out of my writing research folder.

Superb Fairy-wrens

This juvenile started life with no tail, and the tail he has now is nothing like the rest of his family's. I hope he survives.