Paul at the beginning of the walk.  We thought this would be completely flat being beside the top lake shoreline (part of Mallacoota inlet) – it wasn’t.  We ended up hiking over the valley ridges between the estuary inlets.  We were aiming for a picnic stop called Captain Creek which was about 6km one way.  We went about 4.5km one way.

Not sure if this is an old madden – where aboriginals have eaten shellfish – or if this an animal’s eating point.  Anyway something has been eating the shell fish.

Navigation marker to the Big Bight – a small bay that looks like someone has taken a bite out of the land – on one of top lake arms.

We walked about another 3 km after this point looking for somewhere to sit down, eventually we returned to eat our sarnies.  View of that marker buoy from our picnic bench.

Paul at the picnic spot – this is a fake happy smile.

You can just make out the bird here.  It’s a bell bird or bell miner (Manorina melanophyrs), has a beautiful hoot – sounds a bit like stone in break pad, only nicer, and lives in the upper tree storey.  Difficult to spot and is greenish in colour.  We thought there was something wrong with the car at first – Paul had just done an off-road session.  Thanks god we never took the car to the Toyota dealer, which is what we were going to do for about a week before we realised the noise was still going on when the car was stopped.  When you get lots of them, there is usually somewhere between 40-50 in a group, the noise is incredible – people have been known to move because they never shut up – one way of making sure no other birds enter your space.  If the noise fails then they attack.