sept 8 seems i've survived my near death experience, i.e. existential crisis sept 9 tropical rain. no birdwalk. did spruik in carpark undercover. pizza. library and that warm wet feeling, movement almost like swimming. australia pacifica. footy finals - september show of cats and the rest. geelong dispatched the saints like meatpackers filling an order. the spectacle, the drama. obama. what a show. fannie and freddie've gone bust. oops. foreign holders burnt. beijing not happy. why waste money on them (meaning us) anymore. they (the chinese) won't be loyal like the japanese who after all wer [View Full Entry]

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sept 4 spruiking back. got told to leave cairns central but found four other carparks where i'll go til i'm stopped. seeing stickers regularly. adjusting to new binoculars. got the mangrove robin clearly for twenty seconds. my daily routine seems to have calmed me. long walk on esplanade early. then spruik and lunch. got told by esplanade worker not to spruik. he said he'd call security so i split. they'll get to me eventually. i've just got to do as much as i can before then. oh for freedom, true freedom! a citizen can't walk his streets and talk to his [View Full Entry]

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aug 26 varied triller at centenary lakes. yesterday bought 10x50 binoculars so viewing much magnified. deep breathing exercises. windy afternoons. early and late shower. Sept 1 staying cairns for a few more weeks. spruiked cairns central carpark the last few days for excellent results. we're soon on cars in torres straight. days lengthening and slightly warming. good. good. [View Full Entry]

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aug 24 walk on esplanade met brian bird master got offer of bird count at mornington kimberly. four days to get there, ten on the count!?* maybe a bit too much. drove to yorkeys knob yacht club very nice, sticker on car! went to beach, had walk with ian and maureen going prawning. gave sticker and accompanied. she'd had a class where teacher showed sticker and asked for comment! grey-morphed eastern reef egret. back at carpark kitesurfers loving high winds. me too. stuck three or four cars!!! white breasted swallows at yc(lots). sun setting on groyne fishers, music wafts from club. [View Full Entry]

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aug 13 afternoon race from cyc. sunny breezy and flat water in river. perfect. club building soon to be demoloished. aug 14 more fab weather. first real spruik in six weeks. has the passion returned?! double-eyed fig parrots and buff-banded rail. met couple from willimstown who got sticker there. aug 22 oops, week gone. today up to lake morris above cairns for birding. curvy sixteen kms road. beautiful. many seen, some identified, some not. delaying departure for perth. too cold still. future flexible. [View Full Entry]

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aug 8 cairns. that dark place on sunny day where green mountains and boat yard blustery winds meet at 5:05. beer waiting for barby. gaia give me strength. still no spruiking. inspiration gone. read 'australian', chanted mantra, swam, and sought stillness in my soul. aug 9 last night olympic opening awesome cairns casino big screen. they've got the numbers and the hi tech. today another day of windy wet tropics. red-kneed dotteral? $5 lunch and attempt at spruik. 4:30 esplanade, pelicans, gulls and terns. port authority dingy man on bow plucking mangrove saplings to keep mudflats clear. fl [View Full Entry]

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july 25 black-necked stork. neck actually metallic blue green! two adults and one young. yc barby. july 26 cool night, sunny day. dons beat pies by forty. girl at checkout recognises me and wanted sticker.! on this breezy sun setting esplanade as barrier reef boats return, yellow honeyeater, yellow. july 28 black bittern, forrest kingfisher, pacific bazza, double-eyed fig parrot, little bronze cuckoo, dusky honeyeater, brown-backed honeyeater, yellow oriole, buff-banded rail, white-browed crake aug 4 waking 4:30am to hear cane crushing reports on radio. maca and those calls from outback [View Full Entry]

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july 16 nursing my wounds. no spruiking. no news. july 17 rain stopped. day of routine. swim and spa. july 18 barby at yc $5. motored on catamaran along river at night. july 19 footy cats thrash dogs in second half. july 20 with twitchers to lake eachem in tablelands. golden whistler, fantail, scrub wren, tree creeper, lewin honeyeater, little shrike thrush, pale yellow robin, riflebird, wampoo pidgeon, brown gerigone, swamp and spotted harrier, fairy and tree martins, plumed and wandering ducks, darter, peid cormorant, richards pippit, mistletoe bird, kestrel, brown falcon, red browe [View Full Entry]

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july 11 half moon rising in the afternon. sunny full fresh brreeze cairns esplanade. families on holidays. fantastic view, the mighty estuary strewn with boats. occasional chopper, jetting out. two seaplanes on moorings. red green flashing channel markers on coolish night, perfect weather but. sikhs, hindus, malays, melanesians, melaeucas, palms. july 12 morning walk, recognising birds. peregrine falcon perched on high rise. footy in the arvo. july 13 coffee walk, beach stone curlew. falcon on high rise. japanese twitcher. library scene mag acidic oceans nightmare. global finances shaky. [View Full Entry]

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july 9 euro conversations, chemical castration. what do you do with the criminally insane? overcast, mild. maccafe and long walk, docks and esplanade. talk with two germans followed by walk withdark dutchess and italiana. gaia and obama. a dream unleashed. the audacity of hope, change we can believe in. america's finest hour beckons. but what of bloomberg, wild card in the pack? hillary's harpies subdued. then couple francais and council workers, measuring, marking. well if the world turns homeless from mortgage collapse. i can write that book. life on the road, kaleidoscope of human activity [View Full Entry]

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