Two doves in our garden recently became parents. Their eggs hatched a few days ago and their babies are already quite big and their eyes have opened too.
Here's mum or dad (can YOU tell the difference?!) who came back for some feeding. During the day they don't really sit on the nest anymore. It's very warm so they babies won't get cold.
We went to the post office to post stuff and pay bills.
It was a very warm day (27C inside our flat!) and in the evening I just wanted to swim in the sea. I just had to. It was calling me :-)
Right. I was going to write about a fin that we saw in the distance. About twice as far away from the beach as I was. It was definitely not the dolphins but we didn't think it was a shark either. They spotted a great white last week but that would've been gone by now and you don't get many great white's here.
So out of curiosity I check the news and guess what?
It was a f*cking shark. And not a toy shark either. Actually even bigger than the one we had last week aparently. It must've been about 100 metres away from me. Check
the story in our quality news paper or look at
more photos.
It also explains why we saw a speed boat racing towards the area where we saw the shark. Probably police or something. The scary thing is that there was also a guy on a jet-ski that we couldn't find anymore when we left.
Scary.
We went to Henley today and discovered the Henley Beach kiosk. We didn't know it existed. We had a rather nice cappuccino there.
All was normal until a helicopter came flying past. It was the shark patrol. And yeah, it started circling above the water. We have had an above average amount of shark sightings the past months. You hear about one on a daily basis at the moment and yesterday a man was killed by a great white (that's one like "Jaws") in Perth.
This whole shark thing became quite a circus because they try and escort it away from the beach. The audience was growing.
At one point there was the helicopter, two boats from the surf life-savers and one police boat. Oh, I forgot the little surf life-saving quad that was on the beach. I guess they are there just incase the shark tries to come on land...
