Looking After Charlie - Day 2. Flowers, and we meet Declan. Friday 9th August.

Today the sun came out, not like yesterdays rain and icy winds.

This is the second day of our 3 week sojourn to the Central Coast to look after Charlie, the 3rd member of the Andrew and Zane family.

 In the morning I went up to the Waratah Walk section of Brisbane Waters National Park (on the road to Patonga) for a quick 1.5 hour 'Flora Friday' outing.  All it needed was a couple of hundred metres to be covered and I had more than enough material to keep me happy, spring had arrived on the central coast. We were invited for lunch to Bridie and John's home at Bensville to meet with Sarah and her new son Declan. Lynn thought that Declan looked just like John but had Rob's hair colour. It was good to catch up again.

Looking After Charlie: This series works from OLDEST to NEWEST.

Click on 'Older Post' at bottom of page to go to next day, so on and so on to the last day.

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Conospermum longifolium  -  Long-leaf Coneseed.
I like how this flower is put together.

 

Comesperma volubile  -  Love Creeper.
Nice blue.

 

These Boronias would look great in the garden.

 

The Scaly Phebalium put on a good show.

 

Cheerful Philotheca.

 

Very sharp leaves make this Spike Wattle hard to handle.

 

The flattened stems of this Bossiaea make it look more
like a succulent.

 

Looking like fairies dresses is a Black-eyed Susan.

 



Sarah and Declan...........

 

 

.......and Nana.

 



With Grandpa.

 

Looking After Charlie - Day 3, The Entrance to Norah Head. Saturday 10th August

Sent on a wild goose chase to pick up a parcel from Bateau Bay post office (the parcel was actually back at Umina) we made the most of it by driving onto The Entrance and Norah Head.

Chittaway Bay from Long Jetty.

 

Enjoying the view.

 

Waiting for their crews.

 



The long jetty at Long Jetty.

 

Nearly reaches the other side.

 

Clear waters of the Tuggerah entrance at The Entrance.

 

The old and the new.

 



Every day is carnival day at The Entrance........just like it use to be, only newer.

 

Norah Head Lighthouse.

 

 

Little Leucopogans are becoming a big favourite of mine.




The lights on but, there's nobody home.

 

Looking out from Wyrrabalong Lookout, Forresters Beach.

 

Norah Head and Lynn's head.

 

View from Wyrrabalong Lookout.
Looking south:  Forresters Beach, Wambral Point, Wambral Lake, Wambral Beach, Terrigal,
 Broken Head and First Point (Copacabana).
 

 

Lynn found this Brown Beaks orchid near the lookout.

 

Looking After Charlie - Day 4, Lunch and Boat Trip with Lorraine & John. Sunday 11th August.

A boat trip, lunch and a relaxing afternoon with, and at, Lorraine and John's.

 

The skipper prepares for launch off.

 

A boy and his toy.

 

Let the talking begin.

 

The skipper, high on 'happy juice', navigates the
 treacherous waters to Bensville.

 

 

Hoping to catch dinner.

 

Or maybe the cormorants ate them all.
Pied Cormorant and Little Pied Cormorant.

 

 

Houses at Davistown.

 

What is?

 

 

The  'stealth'  house. This only showed as a vacant block on the radar.

 

Was that a crocodile swimming past near the end? 

They round them up on Sea-horses.

 

Some boats are better than................

 

...........others.

 

Houses at Empire Bay.

 

Swimming enclosure at Davistown.

 

 

Does the name relate to an old flame, or a toothache.

 

Some of the neighbour's runabouts.

 

Made it back safe.

 

The second mate getting ready to tie up.

 

Little Egret and Great Egret enjoying some afternoon sun.