Chipping and Paddling

We arrived back at Honeydale to find our kayaks had arrived so we took a drive into Ferndale to pick then up after a reconnaissance at Captain Logan’s  landing on Lake Wivenhoe.   While we were in Ferndale we brought some material to get a temporary irrigation system working using water from an existing tank that was filled from the roof of the old shed.

House pad after cleaning and mowing

We returned to Honeydale and using a mixture of new parts from Ferndale and salvaged pipes we managed to get an operational basic irrigation system for our garden.  Roger then fired up the mulcher and processed all the green timber from last weeks pruning.  Our first compost pile was steaming so it seemed that our method to prepare compost is working, only another six weeks to confirm the results.

View to north from house pad

During our walks we have found several bush turkey nests and finally we spotted a walking, talking bush turkey.  It was late in the day it was scratching around one of the dead woodpiles.  It was too far away to get a photo; hopefully next time we will get a photo.

On Saturday we awoke to a cool clear morning so we loaded to kayaks onto the Hilux and went to Logan’s Landing.  We must have looked competent as a guy with a very elaborate kayak and fishing rig asked us if we could launch there.  We replied this was our first time at Logan’s Landing as well.

 

We all launched and despite having to punch into a 300 mm swell we made good progress as we initially followed the shoreline.  Summing up our courage we headed off to the far shore line, our only fright was when a formation of pelicans was lining up to land and we were in there flight path, feet were down and they were preparing to splash down when they appeared to see us and the feet were pulled in and wings started to flap.  Collision avoided.

Our kayaks

We returned to Honeydale and had morning tea then started work in the garden.  Roger then moved onto clearing some dead timber from the north-eastern quadrant.  Dead timber is hard on the chainsaw so after four dead trees were felled and sectioned the saw was definitely struggling with a dull chain.

Late in the afternoon a small wallaby was spotted grazing on the grass near the shed.   However, its regular companions were not spotted.

Photos by Roger and Jenny