The Case of the Stolen Push Bike

4^th – 9^th October 2025

One thing at a time. To be fair, we were at the end of the dry season so the mid-town area, that was highlighted for bird spotting, was a little dry. Still, there were a few birds around the Water Gardens including the elusive Hooded Parrot and I was thrilled to see this lovely bird.

Over the last few months, I’ve been making up for the shortfall in birds, with dragonflies. Here are a few that I took in the Water Gardens.

Dragonflies were not the only photogenic little critters.

There were a few other birds at Pine Creek and other winged creatures that were not birds.

Now to the bike theft.  For probably the second time since we bought the bike, it was not locked up. Around 2am on our first night in Pine Creek, a group of locals went through the Lazy Lizard Caravan Park like a dose of salt. Backpacks, clothes, passports, visa’s, mixed paraphernalia and…Peter’s bike, all were taken. Some things were recovered, scattered around the town, others were not. Peter loved that bike, he’d ridden it in some great places around the country, and its theft really devastated him.

We reported the thefts to the police, all of us, and they indicated that they had a good idea about who the thieves were, but there was nothing they could do about it. And I’m going to leave it at that and head on to Edith Falls.

Edith Falls National Park was lovely. It was one of the few parks that hadn’t had burn offs through it. Even though it was stinking hot, we enjoyed it there and made good use of the wonderful swimming hole. The waterfall was flowing gently and it was super cool to sit on the natural rock ledges under the falls and just…enjoy.

As well as the falls, there were a pair of Blue-Winged Kookaburras, I was able to get a shot of the male, as well as some pretty flora.

And a few more birds.

As mentioned, it was super-hot, even the birds were feeling it, but they made the most of the sprinklers that ran all day long. I must admit, even we dragged our chairs under the sprinklers, and it seems the birds were right…it felt really good.

See you out there somewhere

On tow and on the go!