Sat, 28th November, 2015 Quicks Beach, Barooga, NSW

Cool night. 17 degrees at 8am. Breeze cool but it is lovely in the sunshine which there is plenty of with a clear sky.

The carp are continuously cruising by. Should try and catch one but there we are in a total no fish zone here till Dec 1 and we don't have a fishing licence. These are no good to eat and they want them destroyed too.

Put on our boots and headed off for a walk to see if we can find a NSW koala. A beautiful kingfisher – Steve said “remember Tracy when we went to NT with her and Greg – she would go ‘ooh ooh’ and we thought crocodile but she was going crazy about a kingfisher!!”

Upstream around the bend to look over at the camping area on the Victorian side.

Lovely big old Red River Gum.

It’s trunk was burnt out and made a great hiding spot –  Steve checking it out.

I was keeping an eye out for creepy crawlies!!

Kept following the track to another nice beach area.

No koalas up these trees.

Further upstream we found another beach – I think this will be Nevin’s Beach which we checked out last year from the Vic side. The water was a lot lower then and there was more beach.

Back to our camp area where there is a cross for someone who used to enjoy this area a lot.

Nice relaxing day. Got brave and walked into the water – nice right on the edge but a lot colder as you got deeper – has to warm up a lot more before I get my togs on!!

There is a boom sound every half hour or so. Asked a local walking his dog – obviously they don’t adhere to the National Park ‘No Dog’ sign!! Anyway he said the sound was to scare the birds off the orchards. Sounds like Puckapunyal!!

A few ski and cruising boats came by.

Steve thought this guy went in a bit deep to load his boat back on.

Quiet evening.