My sister Sue,( blue dress) and I (hat) spent a short time at the Port of Sale before we headed back to Melbourne yesterday. Pics below:

More pics of Frog Gully cottage with lagoon below.

My sister Sue and I stayed at Frog Gully cottage near the Sale Golf Course this Sat and Sun. We were delighted by the gliding pelicans, crazy cockatoos, colourful crimson rosellas, new Holland honeyeaters, spinebills, thornbills, fairy wrens and blue wrens who looked at their images in a small mirror, ibis and ducks. The dawn chorus was almost deafening with a cacophony of calls. Near nightfall there was the quacking of ducks, the lowing of nearby cattle, the laugh of kookaburras and the screeching of sulphur crested cockatoos. It was fascinating watching unsettled weather roll in on Sunday morning with veils of darker clouds and several lightning streaks. Pics below of the cottage:

I made this treasure box to add to my sea creature theme for our seven grandchildren this Christmas.

In pics below: our first grandson Jack (8) is with his brother Cameron (4.5yrs) in a park a few kms from their Cranbourne North home. I spent  time with them before driving to Gippsland to spend time with other grandchildren.

I took three of my grandchildren to their local park in Mirboo North on Monday. Pics below they are sheltering from the rain.

Above: My fourth grandson Tate at his home in Mirboo North

Above: My sixth grandchild (second granddaughter) Niesa 19 months with their labradoodle Lola

Above: the many faces of Lola............a labradoodle and family dog for my grandchildren in the country.