The next hike.

The next hike will be on Saturday, 23rd July.

We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.

Last week we hiked in steady rain from Spragge Road down to Raven Bay where we ate lunch, in the rain, and hiked back by a different route, also in steady rain. What a curious summer we are having — so much rainy weather and not much sunshine.

My photo this time is one I took on a recent midweek hike when it was actually dry and quite sunny. Our native Garter Snake is quite often seen in pools, creeks and swamps where they hunt for small fish, tadpoles and small frogs. This one was in a small roadside pool not far from the airport.

JD.

A garter snake swimming in a small pool of water where it was probably searching for tadpoles.