Morning Walk

 I regularly go for a Saturday morning walk at 7 am whether it is winter or summer. I do this event with my friend Alun Davies who's a long-time Armidale resident and with whom I work on Maria Hitchcock's community activist group 'New England Visions 2030'. Of course, in winter the temperature is often -3 C with a heavy frost when we start. But that was not the case today when it was a warm 6 C. Moreover we might be in mid-winter but today's forecast maximum is 19 C (66 F)! And that's in a town 1000 m above sea level! 

Anyway, we went for a walk along Tilbuster Creek and the views we saw were great. These were taken at about 7.30 am on a brilliantly clear day. The creek was high and flowing fairly fast after recent heavy rains.

We saw quite a bit of wild-life including kangaroos and ducks, but we did not see what we desperately wanted to - a duck-billed platypus. It's known to be living in the Tilbuster creek and it is one the world's strangest and most admired creatures. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus to find out more about this mammal that lays eggs!

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