The day of the mass wildlife

Today we took our usual Newcastle walk to the beach, it normally takes 40 mins but today it took over an hour because of all the wildlife that we saw, and tried to take photos of.

It was pretty hot and we are still looking for the infamous lagoon, so we stopped off here:

behind T bay is a massive drop off and what may be the lagoon, it doesn't look very swimmable though and we weren't sure how to get down there. 

Tanbay was flicking himself with this water when I spotted this!! 

the long thin thing if you go down from the middle of the grass and across from that lower green plant on the right

It's pretty hard to see because my iPhone camera is pretty rubbish, at first we thought it was a sea snake, but then we decided it was probably a fresh water eel. 

Then we were walking through the woods when we saw what I initially thought was a tiny emu (ha). Tanbay said no it's a gobble gobble (ha) but he was correct and got to learn the word 'turkey'. 

between the two trees

the red bit in the photo. 

We also saw two massive lizards, who were camera shy. I got worried and said it was like the day after tomorrow where all the animals are unusually active, Tanbay said it was more like Jurassic park or king kong. 

Then we made it to the beach. 

Then the most ironic thing happened. Having seen numerous wild and venomous snakes, spiders, sting rays and jelly fish we have been lucky enough not to be bitten or stung by any of them. So what happened today? Tanbay got stung. By a European honey bee. So much for dangerous Australian wildlife.

Luckily Tanbay wasn't allergic, as we were over 30 minutes walk from the main road, and a helicopter rescue wouldn't have been affordable. It was also lucky that the sting could be soothed by the near by sea. Tanbay's lucky that I am a hypercondriac and have a medical app on my phone that told me to remove the stinger. I am lucky that Tanbay isn't a giant baby, and is in fact quite a macho German who didn't whine once and after five minutes said it had stopped hurting.

We made our way back anyway in case he started to have a delayed allergic reaction, and because I wasn't sure if I'd got the whole stinger out or not.

We also saw the same massive lizard on the way back:

he was really really black and shiny. 

We saw this on the way and I unsuccessfully tried to turn it into Tanni. 

My lovely mother sent me a postcard with the best stamp ever: 

We also got crust pizzas, they are so amazing. Tanbay said it was his number one moment in Australia when they arrived, ha. 

I had salmon and he had BLT!

Here's Kobe again