Deleting photos..

Thought I'd post some photos before I delete them to hopefully free up space and speed my computer up.

The story behind the skink eating cake picture is quite funny, I think. Annie and I were going for a day hike in the Blue Mountains and being girls that like cake we first went to the bakery and bought a cake that was so full of butter and sugar it weighed an astonishing amount for its size. We set off and walked and walked in this beautiful park and eventually sat down for lunch (obviously this is the abbreviated version..) and were joined by a large skink. For lunch we had fruit and salad sandwiches and the cake we'd packed in my bag to savor later. The skink "walked" right up to my bag, by-passing spilled grated carrots and our apple cords (to be disposed of later in a proper manner of course) and set about climbing it, got inside and started tearing at the paper bag that the cake was in. The skink was in a state likening that of a lady at pms time suffering from chocolate withdrawals. So we gave in a gave him a bit of cake which he devoured ferociously and Annie and I were sure he'd die, if not of choking, then from the effects of the unhealthy snack he'd just had (might well have been a her of course). Anyway, who would have thought that skinks also liked cake more that salad sandwiches and fruit??!

Here are a couple more pictures from that hike, a waterfall from below, cool and refreshing on a hot day.

Here's one of a weird bunch of grubs.. Tightknit whatever they are (hardy-har-har I'm so clever).

This hike started not far out of Katoomba and, as is seen on this next picture, was full of beautiful scenery!

On another occasion when we rented a house in Barrington Tops we found this little green tree frog in the toilet.

And when we were camping at Gloucester Tops we had a nice visitor change (nice change from the leeches!!!) in this small, pesky possum.