This week we having been staying on the farm of a Canadian friend on Woodford Island on the Clarence River near Grafton, NSW. I cannot understand why he is not here full time. It is so idyllic. On the veranda we look out over the 20 or 40 resident Kangaroos grazing in the front yard. There are Macadamia nut farms in front of that and then in the distance we see the sugar cane fields. The plethora of colourful and loud birds has our fingers flipping through the bird book frequently trying to identify.....kookabarra, rainbow bee-eater, kinfishers, heron, ibis, egrets, many doves, plover, lorrekeets, parrots of all sorts.......amazing. Our original plan when we came to Oz was to immediately buy a camper van and start driving north to circumnavigate Australia, doing the north first before the
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