Little Cove Walk

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Little Cove Walk

 

Slip into your thongs...

or do you call them flip flops

  or jandals -

if you are a New Zealander,

or slippers -

as in Hawaii...

  

Let's walk down the lawn

and cross the road

  

to the steps

  

down to the boardwalk

  

 I am taking you for a walk

just a little stroll today

it is so hot

I thought you might like a swim

at Little Cove

  

What's that?

  

who's this 

  

oh 

you little beauty

it's the Blue Faced Honey Eater

  

taking refuge

in the shade 

of the palm fronds

  

see you later

  

we turn left 

and amble down hill

slowly

  

we are heading 

for this cove

  

which looks so cool

and inviting

  

it's not too busy today

  

and the sea is calm

  

 

we'll find a spot

with some shade

  

down we go

  

 you can fish

  

or swim out the back

across the cove

  

have a try at 

stand up paddling

  

snorkle

at the edge 

of the bay

  

body surf

  

or even share

a little romance

  

now we have cooled off

let's head back home

 

and if we get hot

we'll take a little rest

where the brush turkey 

has created a mammoth nest 

on the bank

and we'll look out 

over the ocean

of Little Cove

my new home...

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Little Cove Walk

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Walking in Little Cove
Pre Moonbootitis...

One day I named this glade-
which really is just a pretty section
of footpath,
Bromeliad Lane

and the name has stuck,
you can rest assured
that when the Bromeliads flower again
I will be showing them to you
in all their glory...

Meanwhile I have found another
Powder Puff for you,
another Calliandra

but this time
looking semi circular in shape

The basket fern
Drynaria Rigidula
is often found under eucalyptus
in the rainforest margins

see how the older dried leaves
form a basket at the base of the fern

Many of you will be familiar
with the poinsettia
as a colourful
Christmas pot plant

Here we have the poinsettia shrub

I learned from watching
this busy bush turkey
that turkeys are quite partial
to the fruit
of the pandanus tree

Turkey has a segment
of the fallen pineapple shaped
and sized fruit
and is tearing at with his beak






Turkey has been here...
Setting cement atop a wall
on our building site
bears the marks of the resident turkey
who resumes his occupancy
once the builders have left the site
for the day






I love the way
that flowering grass

can do this...
when huddled together

we are coming down
to the ocean now
past the purple weedy vine

with spiral whorled centre

and vibrant orange creeper,
the orange trumpet vine
a South American Native
Pyrostegia Venusta or flame vine

to the silver trunked gum tree
standing majestically
on the edge
of the great Pacific Ocean...



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