Another Photo Opportunity!

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Now that the old deck terracotta tiling has been ripped off,

the temporary surface is just too nice to waste:

It's the backdrop of this selection of wood fired ceramics in my collection:

Justin Lambert.

Kyle Houser.

Adam Knoche.

Eric Soulé.

Mitch Iburg.

Justin Lambert.

JD Jorgenson.

Peter Rademaker.

Steven Smith.

Justin Lambert.

Ian Winsemius.

Adam Knoche.

Simon Levin.

Justin Lambert.

Eric Soulé.

Matt Kellerher.

Josh Floyd.

Having the upstairs deck re-tiled!

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The old porous hand-made terracotta tiles had to go

- they'd become totally unclean-able

(admittedly we haven't been re-sealing them every couple of years,

as one should, we now hear).

The new ones are porcelain tiles from Italy.

Here's the first day progress:

A New Dawn - Sunrise Five Minutes Ago

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Today's Walk - A Goanna, a Bull Ant, Another Goanna And an Eastern Snake-necked Turtle

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Where are the snakes, echidnas, platypuses and black cockatoos?
On my wish list, they are..

But today I got lucky on my walk, anyway:

Little Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos)

Goanna.

Banksia.

Bull Ant with her meal.

And she had her baby with her!

This is the second goanna.

Eastern snake-necked turtle, Chelodina longicollis.

Deep Creek, Sydney.