Another warm day this week, it reached 41.5 °C and then the next day it was cold, it is continuing to be a place of variable weather.

When the wind abated a little we managed to get a birds eye view of the facility, the wind is a constant in the west.

We make a journey to Twilight Cove, this is a very beautiful place, photographs just do not do it justice. The sea is a cool aqua blue. The migratory waders from the northern hemisphere are scattered along the beach and we found some land lovers amongst the rocks.

The track into Twilight Cove is very narrow and eventful, plenty of scenery, birdlife and interesting geology. You can smell the rotting seagrass and the wracks can be anywhere up to two metres high, we expect as summer progresses they should diminish and the beach will become less of an obstacle course. We found some travellers needing assistance to find the exit point off the beach and they followed us back to base.

Another day and we take another drive to Twilight Cove, escorting students doing a bird field technique course. Today the sea is jade green. We spot plenty and varied migratory waders. We also see Wedgetail and White-bellied sea eagles. We find Little Penguin tracks but unfortunately amongst them are cat tracks.

The wind has been fierce at times, and creates some amazing scenery as sand blasts over the top of dunes and cascades down the steep lee-side. The wind is constantly sculpting the landscape and no one place is the same the next day, your tracks quickly disappear on a windy day. The plants here are tough and adaptable. The melaleuca at Burnabbie are in flower, masses of white flowers. Acacias of all kinds are flowering, others are in seed such as Acacia cyclops G.Don with their scarlet coating around the seed are unusual looking. Also we find the interesting Frog Hakea, Hakea nitida R.Br.. Reptiles do well here too, geckos and Scaly-foot legless lizard, Pygopus lepidopodus are readily encountered.

Another trip to Burnabbie ruins provides an opportunity to climb the escarpment and get a great view of the landscape below. We find the remains of a recently discovered new genus of land snail found in 2015, Bothriembryon sp we hope to explore further east and see if we can find more of them. We try taking a few night shots.