Oops another week gone by....

....and no blog! Apologies for lack of updates but have had a few technical problems - the laptop decided to play silly buggers and kept crashing.
It has been a quiet week - the weather has definitely turned summery with temps in the 30s most days and only dropping to 24 at night, the humidity is on the rise with it being over 75% most days and regularly over 90% - we have also had a fair amount of rain which is good for the garden but if I'm honest I was hoping it would hold off as I was hoping to chase down a few budgies in the next couple of weeks but with this rain I suspect they have moved back West.
Aside from a couple of walks along the Esplanade we have not been out much - Tish having "enjoyed" her gall stones so much a couple of months ago decided to go for the set and has spent several days this week in agony passing a kidney stone!!!
I managed to spend about 45 minutes watching these Welcome Swallows - unfortunately the light was bad so the pictures are not as good as they should be

the youngster was very approachable and I was slowly edging closer when they were flushed by a couple walking directly in front of me- given that the gap between me and the swallows was only a couple of feet they could have walked behind! They can to an extent be excused as they were clearly distracted by this beast that had been patrolling the shoreline

I think it is a Reef Shark but I could be wrong - it was reasonably large (4-5 foot)

Back home we have a reasonably tame Cockatoo that visits the garden on a daily basis

as well as the friendly young Black Butcherbird

Most afternoons we are getting clouds building up on the hills behind so we have not had any decent sunsets, this is the best that I managed this week

the colour was far stronger.

Big news for next week is the arrival of Diana - house has been cleaned in preparation!