Reg and I have been enjoying our side trips out from our midyear base here at Flying Fish Point. There are many inland, waterways to explore, lakes, rivers and waterfalls we will visit, over the next couple of months.

I especially love the pond plants I see in the top end waterways, the Australian native blue waterlillies in particular and the platypus inhabits the ponds in the mountains of Queensland as it does many of the waterways in the southern parts of Australia. 

There is a Platypus walk near Millia Millia, in the Atherton Tablelands. The best time to view platypus is at dawn and dusk. Just watch patiently near the water’s edge in places they are known, to inhabit and you will see them come out of the burrows at the edge of the river or pond bank, to feed.
 

Emus have to be my favourite bird to paint. 

They have so much character in their face.  Mind you, I know a few characters who, farm emus and sell the oil.

One good friend I know who sells emu oil is constantly asked ‘how do they obtain emu oil from emus’.  He always tells them, with a straight face, that ‘they milk them like goats’. lol  J.

We have always had a few laughs together when we meet as he has a dry humour.  We were talking together about the law that states. that ‘only sterile emu eggs may be sold, as blown (empty) eggs’ and he assured me that, ‘by the time they had emptied the egg they were indeed well and totally sterile’.

I told him that his rosemary and emu oil hand cream was a hair loss treatment for men as I had been rubbing it into Reg’s bald scalp, because he had dry skin there and this fine down had begun to grow on his scalp. It actually looked funny, this fine hair,  when I ran out of this particular hand cream the fine downy hair stopped growing and no other emu oil product we tried repeated the effect.

 

I have begun my Figurative and Wildlife print pages of this website and blog, this morning.  Just a couple to begin with, I hope you enjoy them. The copyright notice is not written on the print we supply our customers.  We travel with our prints. so these can be purchased 'direct from the artist' at our 'caravan awning studio'  We also have these available laminated for our 'personal sales' customers but not for our web sales.