Mallacoota

Dear Great Gran,
It was warmer than home, but frequent showers on the first day of our weekend in Mallacoota meant plenty of rainbows......and the high winds meant the surf was definitely up...
..although, of course, the inlet was calm, as you can see here.
I took lots of photos of pelicans - before I visited the tourist office and realised that pelican photographs are Mallacoota's main export industry.
Here's Julie showing everything that she knows about fishing to Vinnie and Buttons, who are looking dutifully impressed. As fate would have it, Julie's sum of fishing knowledge exactly equaled the number of fishes caught, which quite understandably left her young pupils completely mystified by the whole experience!
Here's a video of Buttons and Vinnie running amok on the wharf (where there is a clever mural painted on the side of a shed).

And another video in the playground.

much love
Brendan

Nursery Swamp

Dear Great Gran,
yesterday we went on a very cold day walk to Nursery Swamp. Here's Julie, Oliver carrying Buttons and Rohan carrying Momo.
Here I attempted a Heidelberg school image of child alone in the bush...
And here is the lunch stop - though personally I thought it was too cold to sit down for even a minute!
Here are Julie and Momo at our destination - the atmospheric, brooding bog.
And I thought the ever-cheeky Momo could make a cameo movie appearance:

much love,
Brendan