Australia Day celebrations

The resort put on a pre-Australia Day BBQ, with a sausage sizzle by the pool. E and C availed themselves of the free food and drink, whilst I enjoyed taking photos of the action.

Could you walk around in this? She claimed it belonged to her mother! They seemed to have over-catered on the sausages, so C helped herself to a few to add to the spaghetti sauce she had made:

We took a late afternoon walk into the nature reserve on our doorstop. There are warnings up about the mosquito-born disease of Ross River Virus, so we gave ourselves a good spray first. The location is brilliant, though:

There had been a recent fire through the area, and there was still a lingering smell of smoke, but the green shoots are already coming through: