Sun-warm back and skin-cold

[byslantedlight]

Pics on the move at last - a brief escape from family... I can hear kookaburras now and then, and a few other birds. This is Sugarloaf Reservoir, which helps keep Melbourne in water...

Oh, and I just looked across the road - those dots are kangaroos... *g*

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[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Really lovely pictures. And while I'd be amazed to see kangaroos, were you, really? *g* It sounds as if you're having a lovely time, having to escape family notwithstanding. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And actually, although I wasn't amazed to see the kangaroos, I was pleased to see them. Growing up, we hardly ever saw kangaroos, either because we were in the wrong area for them in the first place (although we moved around a fair bit, so that's alot of wrong area) or because they'd been chased away by all the people-activity. The place where I took the photo was reasonably busy with humans too - I was standing on the road that went by (and across) a reservoir that was used for picniccers and hikers and so on, and there'd been noisy motorbikes on it about ten minutes before. So the kangaroos must have worked out how to be at home with all of that!

Family can be... awkward. But so far I've survived - and they can be cool too. I've just been contacted by the son of a cousin no one really knows, who was wondering about our family tree. He's dead keen, and it turns out he only lives three hours away, so I'm hoping to go up and meet him and have a chat. He's also got a one year old son, and sounded so pleased about it, which is always lovely to hear!