In the Western
part of Ku-ring-gai NP is Bobbin Head. Next to Cowan Creek
runs a
boardwalk over mangroves, covering mud dotted with inches-long mangrove
"pegs" of new growth, also heavily populated by tiny crabs of varying
varieties, colours and shapes, fighting, eating mud, nipping down into
their holes. Their eyes on the tops of heads means they're always looking up at you!
The path then climbs through rocks, past native trees and stone.
At one park entrance is a curious memorial : Pte Shirley's
personal commemoration to his comrades who fell in the Egyptian campaign
in the form of a hand-carved 1:8 size Sphinx, with mini pyramids.
Being a sunny Friday afternoon, our first ever visit to a golf course - merely spectating of course,
(aka heckling - after all, how hard can it be?!) and with multiple diversions from the local wildlife
Talking of kookaburra, I hadn't appreciated quite how many types of "gum" tree there are; the scribbly gum (Eucalyptus haemastoma) gets its zigzag tracks from hungry moth larvae.
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