Back to the reserve

We were a bit late getting up after our night out. By 9.00 am it was already getting too hot in the nature reserve and all the best birds had been and gone. Only the ducks were left, swimming around with the water to themselves. I came to a big stand of paperbark trees, where it was nice and shady:

In the distance, I spotted a few white herons, up to their knees in shallow water, too far away to get a good photo:

I walked as far as the osprey’s nest, but there was no sign of life:

Back at Mandurah Quay, I persuaded E to do a Juliet on the balcony of our accommodation: