June 1

Today was a fascinating day. I worked on my sermon in the morning and that left the afternoon for touring around. We went to a small town called Beauty Point and it is a great name for this pretty town. Bruce and I are on a quest for the perfect fish and chips meal and as you can see we had to sample another. It was very good but atoo many chips for me so we passed them on to some birds that were begging at our table. The could catch the food when we threw it up in the air. After lunch we went to the Platypus House. We know there are some in the river in Deloraine but this seemed like a good opportunity to see them. It was fascinating to learn about this unusual creature that is a mammal, bird and rodent. Bruce was able to take pictures and these two seemed to be the best. The bonus of going to the Platypus House was they also had Echidna as cousin of the Platypus. They are sometimes called spiny anteaters but aren't related to the anteater although they do eat ants. They are quite elusive and rarely seen in the wild so we were happy to see these ones. Just before I left to come to Tasmania Kathryn M. said be sure to see an Echidna and until then I didn't know they existed -- so Kathryn today I saw three. As we drove to Beauty Point we saw a sign to Batman bridge and I wanted to go over it. It is quite impressive and goes over the Tamar river. When we stopped to take a picture there was a huge flock of parrots. We are still not used to seeing flocks of parrots they are just awesome birds with so many colors. I finished the day off by going to my Fit Ball class. I need all the exercise I can get because of these quests for the best tasting Fish and Chips.