Thursday 3rd July 2025

Thursday 3^rd July

SHE SAID:

After a short orchid hunt around the free camp, only finding dried up Greenhoods, & leaves of things to come, we headed ever east.

Our destination was Castletown, Esperance, which we got to around 1pm. We have sat for Deb & Mike before so know the house, which is very nice. It took over an hour to move our clobber from Bertie to the house, so lunch was a little late for Geoff’s liking!

The rest of the afternoon was quiet, though it took us a while to locate the AC remote; it was in a cradle but nowhere near the AC. I got rather worried about not having any heating whilst we were hunting.

A few orchids seen since we returned:
Autumn Leek

Common Helmet

Mosquito 

Left & bottom right: Dark Banded Greenhood - green form
Middle & top right: Banded Greenhood

HE SAID:

Our eastward journey was uneventful, stopping for fuel at Ravensthorpe along the way. Being one of very few places to fill up the price there was 20c above normal. But we, as many others also, had to do it.

Reversing in to Mike and Deb’s driveway was much easier this time, as a small gum tree opposite their house has been removed, leaving a straight run towards the garages. After the usual 48 trips to and from the van we settled down to a quiet afternoon, with a bit of footy on TV, sausages for dinner, and a 2 hour Teams link up with Evan, who spends too much time watching Sky News, and believing the tripe they spew. Several times he quote Sky’s nonsense so I looked up reliable sources and refuted the statement. It won’t help though. He seems to think that “There is nothing else to watch.”