Mudgee Meanders: October 2015

A time to relax, feed the animals and celebrate Jimmy's birthday.

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Mount Tomah, morning tea stop.

Daffodils at Zig Zag Railway.

Hassans Walls Lookout is the highest lookout in the Blue Mountains at approximately 1,100 (3,609 feet) metres above sea level. (stitched by Google)

Hassans Walls Lookout.

Plants at Hassans Walls Lookout.

Hassans Walls Lookout.

The Hole-in-the-wall, Hassans Walls Lookout.

Hassans Walls Lookout.

Black Rock Skink (Egernia saxatilis) at Hassans Walls Lookout.

Echidna at Hassans Walls Lookout.

Dangaroo welcoming committee.

"Have you got a booking?"

Just hanging around.

Brown Goshawk or Collared Sparrowhawk eyeing off the finches for breakfast.

We had a visitor from NZ in the morning.

Flowers of the Mudgee Common.

From the hide at Putta Bucca wetlands.

I asked the pig in the hide about the Yellow Wagtail but he wasn't saying anything.

Black-winged Stilts.

The Quarry truck has had a tough life.

Could be a need for some new rubber.

I thought to myself, what is that sulky doing on that platform?

It was a water pump.

The daisy-fields of Dangaroo.

Lillies of Dangaroo.

Flowers of Dangaroo.

Trying to get the message across.

Lawnmowers on the Grattai Rd.

Dead tree and shed.

Who said we had no old buildings in Australia........this could have been built in 1364.

Ba Mack - Homestead. (property)

Stopped to look at this pea plant..........

............and then saw this lone orchid.

A road-side wattle.

Next stop, Central Station. The windows aren't off a red-rattler.

Wood Ducks flatten out so we couldn't see them......well that's what they thought. (I had not seen this behaviour before)

Yes, it's a camel.

St John the Baptist Church of England, Mudgee.

St Mary's Church.

Could this be local artist Peter Brooks? (camera was sill set on B&W)

The chimney guard. (House Sparrow)

'Skinny People are Easier to Kidnap.......Stay Safe, Eat Cake.
Be warned.

Was once all the one store.

'SHORT SHEEP'. $1600 to have a barrel made in France.

Short-sheep lambs aren't all that pretty.

"You're still following us?"

On the vineyard tour with 3 young, soon to be, teachers.

Short-sheep boys.

Learning the in's and out's of grape growing.

Nearly ready to drop off.

Short-sheep making short-work of the grass.

Forked if I know which way to go.

Blue Wren

Flowers of the Mudgee Common.

Grey Fantail

Flowers of the Mudgee Common.

The Kookaburra on the right could be blind in the left eye.

Flowers of the Mudgee Common.

Orchids in the Mudgee Common.

Fuscous Honeyeater.

Lunch for Jimmy's Birthday.

Mudgee cottage and garden.

Some of the headstones removed from three Mudgee cemeteries which were converted into ‘Rest Parks’.

SACRED to. the MEMORY of William. Jessie. Stott. Died. October. 1st. 1872 .Aged. 2 .Months.
(you will notice that there's a 'full stop' after each word and date. we saw the same on an old headstone in Tasmania and the story told to us was that the stone mason wasn't sure where the full stops went so he put them after each word so he would at least get some of them in the right place.)

Some of the headstones removed from three Mudgee cemeteries which were converted into ‘Rest Parks’.

Mudgee street scene.

Autumn colour in spring.

Roos in the sheep paddock.

The building boom has even reached the Common.

Attacked by Beavers.

Mudgee, meaning 'nest in the hills' according to the local Wiradjuri Aboriginal word, 'Moothi'.

Afternoon clouds give the impression of a bushfire.

Mudgee's two main churches, lit up by the setting sun.

VH-OTD. is a British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 32 aircraft. owned by Pelican Airlines,
was built in the UK in 1993 by JETSTREAM AIRCRAFT LTD.
It is a twin Turboprop and runs on kerosene.