The weather continues to be generally cloudy and sometimes wet, this is good for boosting our limited water supplies as we only have tanks, no ground water and no bores. That said, living within the carrying capacity of our environment fosters innovation and good resource management.

The birdlife is amazing and our list of species observed grows. We are entertained by the behaviours of our wildlife friends and we enjoy our bush tv at night, our indoor open fireplace. Despite the rain the warm days we have experienced have brought out the reptiles most notably Shingle-back lizards, occasional goanna and a death adder, and then there are the leaf tailed geckoes that patrol the perimeter at night for insects.

We explore the remnants of farming days now gone, Burnabbie Station and the old Eyre telegraph station – which is the timber and iron version of our limestone bungalow style building. The tracks are narrow and not always well trodden, exploration is fun. Our area of interest covers beach to dune fields, mallee and bluebush plains, escarpment and cliffs.

There are wildflowers in abundance many are subtle and are not always obvious, they seem to blend into the sandy country with its deep green veneer of mallee and shrubs. It’s strange, but the pure white sand of the dune fields gives you a feeling you are in a snow covered landscape. Yet where these snow coloured dunes meet the sea there is mounting piles of kelp, seagrass and seashells.

The weather continues to suprise us, thunderstorms one night and mist soaked mallee in the morning, blue skies and not a breeze then suddenly cost strong winds off the ocean.