Accommodation in Mallacoota
During the past week (end of June!), a young couple in one of the holiday flats complained about excessive rustling in their kitchen cupboard and accused me of harbouring mice. I conceded the possibility, especially as there are always a few field-mice about, but normally they don’t make much of a racket; they are discreet […]
English name: Ormer or Earshell; Japanese: Awabi; American: Abalone (from Spain.); New Zealand: Paua; Australian: Mutton fish. Species occurring in Victoria: Blacklipped Abalone (Haliotis ruber). Around the turn of the century a Chinaman, who lived on Gabo Island, is reputed to have first fished here for Abalone from a boat. He used a long pole […]
Hindsight is such an unpleasant definition full of negative connotations in the English language. We nearly always regret a situation that happened without being thought through and has NOW become a sad reality. I heard on the grapevine that the powers to be are thinking to move the content of the Mallacoota Information Shed up […]
With the extended wet season in Mallacoota nature has sprung into overdrive. Trees, grasses, birds, insects, mammals and even rodents are having a wonderful time; busily reproducing and growing as if there is an urgency to make up for dry times in the past and no doubt hard times ahead. Our local bush-rats (we nick-named […]
Tom Davies (a very experienced diesel mechanic) supplied Mallacoota with electricity on a private basis for many, many years. He installed his own diesel generator, power poles, wiring; the lot. Even though his charges had to be higher than a government subsidized scheme, it worked well. During the 1960s Victoria was ‘modernized’ and electricity supply […]
In January 1999 we saw a strikingly different and rather wonderful new bird on our bird feeders. It was pigeon sized, however had a very outstanding spikey top-knot, very much as the best endeavours of “Trafalgar Square Hippies” who must spend hours trying to get that upright, pointed hairdo erupting from the middle of their […]
The choughs are the flautists (on pan flutes) in black, the currawongs are on the cymbals in their check suits and the magpies would fill in the complete orchestra, in festive black and white. Choughs When I first came to Mallacoota, in eastern Victoria, nearly 30 years ago my knowledge of native birds was rudimentary […]
Pelicans are a common sight in Mallacoota, always appreciated for their elegance in the air, their lovable clumsy gait on land, and their serene and exotic presence on the water. A few days ago we watched a fisherman and his friend cleaning flatheads on the main wharf. They had a very good catch, filling two […]
Julieanne and Ren Milsom 15 December 1991 Dear Margaret and Peter, Thank you for your kind note. We just left the flat as we found it. All three of us really enjoyed our stay in the Adobe Flats. We found the flat very comfortable and relaxing – we wonder why we need a twenty square […]
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