Saturday, September 21, 2013

Sept. 19 - Lamington

Thursday I got up early (5 AM) to go out and listen to the birds with John & the gang.  On the way back we saw a bower bird's bower.  Tis particular species decorates the area around his bower of arched sticks with only blue stuff arranged in a particular pattern of his liking.  If you move a blue object, he moves it back.  Everything has to be perfect to attract a female to his mating bower.  Once the deed is done, she flies off to build a nest and he hangs around his bower to attract another fair damsel...
Dawn!

Bower of sticks decorated in blue
After breakfast we had a free day, so of course Annie and I went on a hike.  This one was three miles downhill to a pool in the river in the valley, then three miles back uphill to the camp.  May I say that our legs were tired??  After dinner we did "bush dancing" which was basically like square dancing.  Everyone really got into it, and it was a fun way to spend our last night in Lamington.


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