Fleurieu wanderings

After my cello lesson this morning (which I always enjoy and feel inspired by) Brian and I went to Goolwa via the back roads from old Willunga hill, through Nankita onto the Strathalbyn Goolwa road. Every thing is looking wonderfully green and lush, some of the scrub bright with yellow flowers of the acacias and white with the lucerne trees along the roads.In Goolwa we picked up some very good fish and chips and then drove to the riverside east of the magnificent Hindmarsh Island bridge. The chips were excellent and hot as well and the seagulls and mallard ducks looked in vain for scraps. I was surprised to see the mallards there, ducks unfortunately, are promiscuous breeders and may contaminate our native black duck population. A couple of cormorants were sitting on the rails hanging their wings out to dry and two marsh hens were strutting around flipping their tails in that delicate way they have.The Murray of course is looking magnificent  after all the rain the Eastern states and Queensland has had which all drains into the northen plains and hence into the Murrumbidgee and then the Murray at Wentworth. The year before last it was just a muddy flat when we sat in the same spot.
We then went to Signal point where there is a magnificent space for a gallery and saw Rita Hall's retrospective exhibition on her study of museum bird skins. Her drawing and painting skills, her compositions and shadings are much to be admired. The birds look dead, which of course they are and to see them with their stiff legs in the air with tags on them, is just bizarre.

We left there and did a bit of a photo shoot of the bridge and some buildings.

On to Pt Elliott which is my favorite place for overlooking the beautiful Horse shoe Bay and spotting a whale or certainly some seals. Took some photos there too and watched a skein of black cormorants flying towards Victor Harbour. The cloud formations to the south and west were stunning. We went back up the road a bit to take a photo of this strange building which looks as though it has been tossed about and left to settle as best it could. 

Drove out of Victor to the Sawpit road which takes you over the river Inman and again over back roads to Willunga through dairy country . It was raining in the hills and got home where it was wet also. Let the chooks out for a little roam around, the bluetongue lizard was hiding by the back door.