Monthly Archives: May 2025

The mornings are getting darker, so torches during the weather time are essential and a novelty, the best thing is. we get to see all these beautiful sunrises and be greeted by the microbats as they fly home to their … Continue reading →

We enjoy another beautiful morning, the landscape is covered by cool soft light. The smaller birds are enjoying a drink at the watering points, one being a Brown Quail. After taking friends back up to the Hampton Plateau, we travel … Continue reading →

We explore the Blue Bush and Pannikin Plain part of the Hampton Plateau today taking a lunch break at Cocklebiddy Roadhouse. After leaving Cocklebiddy we explore some of the old water infrastructure. We find a couple of Bustards, Ardeotis australis … Continue reading →

After a morning of working around the Observatory we take the afternoon off to do a westward run down Kanidal Beach taking notes of birdlife along the way. It’s a productive afternoon with a good numbers of Red-neck Stints, Calidris … Continue reading →

It’s a busy day today, removing feral bees, and cleaning up after our plague of mice. Thankfully we seem to be winning and mice numbers are dropping fast, cooler weather also seems to help. We clean out the workshop shed, … Continue reading →

We continue to help out with a number of maintenance issues it’s a great time to learn how to install and fix radios, gas infrastructure and water pumps. At the same time creatures great and small surround and visit us. … Continue reading →

We need to do an early run to pickup supplies from the highway, meeting the postman heading from Eucla back to Norseman, while it’s a 5am start, the bonus is we get to watch a magic sunrise and spot night … Continue reading →

Sunrise and sunsets, they are always glorious. We have spent our mornings getting daily jobs done and the afternoon dedicated to bigger jobs like track maintenance. The recent rain has seen a number of shrubs bloom into flower, and helped … Continue reading →