Justice is done! When I wanted to read my book for a bit under the lemon trees, my favorite spot in the garden, I found this dead wasp on my pillows. I am pretty sure it was the one who stung me on Sunday!
27 January, 2011
Dead wasp
Justice is done! When I wanted to read my book for a bit under the lemon trees, my favorite spot in the garden, I found this dead wasp on my pillows. I am pretty sure it was the one who stung me on Sunday!
23 January, 2011
Mean wasp
This afternoon I was pruning a bush in the back of the garden when suddenly I had to scream from a stinging pain in my bottom lip and brushed off a wasp who clung to my finger to give me another sting. I managed to suck out the sting with my insect bite extractor and that eased the pain. But of course I got my camera out to see the culprit who caused the pain and found this little nest being build by a few mean looking wasps...It looks like they are breeding a whole colony with tiny white eggs in the nest, not sure if I like them in my garden. These aren't friendly wasps, and not the European paper wasps like the one I had on camera a few monhts ago. I couldn't find if it is a local wasp or not, do you know?
22 January, 2011
Owlet Moth - Dasypodia selenophora
Or also called 'Southern Old Lady Moth'. She was resting on my veranda with a drop of clear liquid,nectar, on her proboscis. With big furry legs she must have been hot with 35 degrees outside.
21 January, 2011
20 January, 2011
Pied Oystercatchers
Pied Oystercatchers looking for worms on the beach. In the short time we were watching they got already several worms out, getting their beaks in until the end, pecking and the next dive there is a worm hanging on it.
19 January, 2011
18 January, 2011
Leaves
Look at the shape of the leaves, so three dimensional. The whole branch is covered in leaves, is it to protect the fragile branch?
17 January, 2011
16 January, 2011
15 January, 2011
14 January, 2011
13 January, 2011
12 January, 2011
11 January, 2011
10 January, 2011
Yellow beach flower
There were quite a few of these yellow beach flowers growing on Mandalay Beach during Christmas. They look so tough, leathery and grow just in the yellow sand, amazing!
09 January, 2011
Green leaves
This amazing bright green leafy scrub is growing in a weird way; from the centre of the leaf. I read the name of it somewhere but can't remember it anymore, it grows in abundance along the Heritage trail in Walpole.
08 January, 2011
07 January, 2011
Mandalay Beach rock III
On the rocks on the other side there is this weird shaped rock, totally out of place...
06 January, 2011
Mandalay Beach rock II
The granite boulders on the beach on the other side of Mandalay Beach are stunning and great to climb, some are huge!
05 January, 2011
Mandalay Beach rock
With Christmas we walked along Mandalay Beach in D'Entrecasteax National Park and came along this big rock with a hole in it. It looks a little bit like a skull with some fantasy...
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