Friday 10 June 2011

June 2011

The frangipani which are such a fragrant and tropical symbol of summer, have dropped some of their leaves as if they've experienced a shock. The few flower buds fail to open more than a fraction, but still have that beautiful perfume.

All this means we had a cold and wet May, interspersed with beautiful, clear sunny and warm days, and now it's June and the winter solstice will occur in 10 days.

King Tide Cafe at the marina has added hearty soups, including seafood chowder, to its blackboard menu, in keeping with the change in weather, and has installed some wonderful new gas heaters, housed in smart wooden lattice boxes,

Linda and Kate now have two life-size mannequins at River Dreams to model some of their ab.fab gear. Kate's restoration skills are coming to the fore with their range of tables and chairs, featuring beautifully finished oiled timber.

Gerd at The Edge Art Space has yet another very exciting concert this month, featuring ice instruments this time.

For a couple of years I have pointed out to children and adults alike, a tiny plastic dinosaur, clinging to the bow return on a tinny moored at the marina. Suddenly, it vanished, and I wondered if it was a casualty of a mooring rope thrown during the recent rough weather, and if, perhaps, it was bobbing along the Hawkesbury somewhere. Fortunately, I encountered the owner disembarking his tinny and was able to ask him. He said that it had probably shaken into the hull as he bounced across the waves in rough weather, and told me he had found it while participating in a clean up of a beach on the river, and that therefore this dinosaur belongs to the river. A few hours later, there was the dinosaur clinging to the bow return once again!

We used to see whistling kites at Terrigal, and a few years ago, watched them building a nest in one of the Norfolk Island pines there, but they are no longer to be seen there, so it is a delight to have them here, as well as the majestic sea eagles.