I'm gonna go crazy with the planting as soon as spring comes around - i do regret i didn't get more in when i first got here but there were a lot of things to deal with at the time. Probably won't live to see the whole thing come to fruition - but someone will.

Meanwhile turns out my creek has at least three platypus - that's pretty special considering most people in Australia go their whole lives without seeing one. They're meant to be super-shy and only come out on dusk or dawn but twice i've seen one in the middle of the day.