Sunday, April 27, 2014
An early morning walk to Billen Cliffs#1
This is a series of three posts that hopefully give you something of the sense of one of my morning walks to Billen Cliffs. I try to set off around 6.30/7.00am and the walk takes about an hour.
Hanging moss drips off this tree on our neighbour's property.
The mist rises to reveal a paddock of greens and golden yellow grasses and shrubs, that shelter brown quail, buff breasted rails and the odd reptile or three.
Martin's Road snakes its way to Billen Cliffs community.
A spider web catches the early morning light.
We have two species of macropod living close by: the ever present red necked wallabies, which can always be seen. They live in loose mobs and are quite tolerant of people. And this fella: the much more elusive and solitary swamp or black wallaby. Almost all the photos I post on this blog I take with my iPhone so unfortunately this is as good as I could get before it bounded off into the bush.
After walking for about half an hour, I come to the entry to Billen Cliffs community: an intentional community based on solar energy. 'Children and wildlife have right of way'.
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Well captured, re the little swamp wallaby. Ours move too fast to catch on film :)
Jeni
Northern Rivers Dreaming
Visual and textual poetry, as ever.
ABC Radio National's Ockham's Razor this morning was called 'Revisiting Nimben'. Gave a good feel for the history of the Northern Rivers, with mentions of Southern Cross University and the Billen Cliffs community.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/re-visiting-nimbin/5421092
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