2004-2005 Australia Trip, part 19
On the fourth, we get ready for our day by enjoying a terrific brekkie made by Bob and Pam. Bob fired up the barbie and made rashers of bacon, fried eggs and grilled tomatoes. Pam had all the rest of the fixin's ready including wonderful fresh fruit. Bob helps plan the day by making a few phone calls and arranging visits with Rod Jones and Lorin Hawes.
We head off and stop to photograph the flying foxes that hang in the trees near Bob's house. Bob is an amazing source of knowledge on birds and animals. Flying foxes are bats the feed on flowers and fruit. The place we stop has thousands of them hanging in the trees. We take photos and try to get closer. The bats fly to trees further away. We manage to get several photos of some in flight. They are fairly big, much larger than any bats I have seen before.
From there we head off to Rod Jones house. Rod was well known for the beautiful and artistic boomerangs he produced. However, Rod has stopped making boomerangs and now makes custom fishing rods and fishing lures for both fresh and salt water fishing. His lures are every bit as beautiful as his boomerangs are. While there, I get out my bag of boomerangs and show Rod some of the fairly unusual one. He was very interested in the fiberglass ones made by Jerri Leu in Brazil. He then got out his throw kit to show me ones he made. As I remark about the painting on one in particular, he tell me to keep it. The he digs out a "Queen of Hearts" style that has a different paint scheme, and signs both boomerangs before presenting them to Barb and me. Another example of the Aussie hospitality, and both Barb and I are stunned. While talking, I comment on hearing a didgeridoo being played and all head outside the garage to check where the sound is coming from. Evidently one of Rod's neighbors plays didge. Rod vows to find out who it is.
Photo: Flying Fox, by Bob Burwell
We head off and stop to photograph the flying foxes that hang in the trees near Bob's house. Bob is an amazing source of knowledge on birds and animals. Flying foxes are bats the feed on flowers and fruit. The place we stop has thousands of them hanging in the trees. We take photos and try to get closer. The bats fly to trees further away. We manage to get several photos of some in flight. They are fairly big, much larger than any bats I have seen before.
From there we head off to Rod Jones house. Rod was well known for the beautiful and artistic boomerangs he produced. However, Rod has stopped making boomerangs and now makes custom fishing rods and fishing lures for both fresh and salt water fishing. His lures are every bit as beautiful as his boomerangs are. While there, I get out my bag of boomerangs and show Rod some of the fairly unusual one. He was very interested in the fiberglass ones made by Jerri Leu in Brazil. He then got out his throw kit to show me ones he made. As I remark about the painting on one in particular, he tell me to keep it. The he digs out a "Queen of Hearts" style that has a different paint scheme, and signs both boomerangs before presenting them to Barb and me. Another example of the Aussie hospitality, and both Barb and I are stunned. While talking, I comment on hearing a didgeridoo being played and all head outside the garage to check where the sound is coming from. Evidently one of Rod's neighbors plays didge. Rod vows to find out who it is.
Photo: Flying Fox, by Bob Burwell
Added on October 19, 2006 by bvdrangs
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