Thick Black Line. An odyssey

I felt a little disheartened this morning, the weather hasn't really picked up after last week and as well as plenty of heavy showers it's cold! Of course that's relative, but I just couldn't think what to do.
Then I realised I've never headed west, and really close by is Cumbebin Swamp which is another National Park jointly managed with the Arakwal people. Now possibly a swamp isn't the best place to go after all the rain, and being bitten quite badly yesterday, but the blurb I found was enticing. Apparently there is a boardwalk, but I couldn't work out where so asked in tourist info ... the woman hadn't even heard of it, so I just went off exploring.

I didn't find a way in, but I did walk along a cycle path that skirts it and that was enough for today. There was a most beautiful flowering plant right at the start - no idea what it is yet. On my route back I saw a little bird doing some sort of display, which led my eye to my first laughing kookaburra, the state symbol of New South Wales. Not only was it resolutely silent it was sitting on electricity cables, not in a gum tree, so without help from that bird I never would have found it! Quite a thrill!

I decided to check out the angry-looking mozzie bite with a pharmacist, and have now 'sooved' myself physically and emotionally - can't beat an egg custard 😎Lue lisää