Nocturnal Creatures during the Day
Yes, we managed to get going slightly faster than 13:00 today. As much as relaxation is a beautiful thing, relaxing outside can be nice too. Especially when you're by the ocean. There's just one slight problem with that. It was windy as heck, and correspondingly freezing.
Around noon, the temperature was still agreeable, if the sun was shining, and I managed to find a me-sized hole in a rock and relaxed there while my travel companion went crazy with the camera. Where it stopped being as agreeable was when the gods couldn't hold their bladder anymore. And then the wind really tried to steal every bit of warmth.
While relaxing in my hole though, we managed to spot a whale playing on the horizon like a two year old having discovered puddles. Which was epic just for the fact that I managed to see a whale splashing about, without having to get onto any sickening, vomit producing, torturous water floating machines. Okay, so you can probably see it far closer on a boat, but I still claim victory.
And before you all decide to point out to me that a whale is not a nocturnal creature, it was a wombat that I saw for the first time in the wild and during the day. I've seen plenty dead ones during the day, and I've seen the rear end of many alive ones in my headlights, but this one was just chilling a couple of metres of one of the paths. It seemed to have a single goal in life, which was to eat. It did this completely oblivious to the people trying to photograph it 2 metres away, and it was still doing it after I walked away for half an hour and came past on the way back. The only time you could see its nose was when it had picked a bush completely clean, and had to transfer the nose from one bush to the next.
Tomorrow I am cannon balling it home, in hope of warmer weather, for potentially another blog worthy event. But that reveal will have to wait upon the final decision of how much of a popsicle I want to be, and how warm the forecast promises it to be. At least it has stopped threatening with rain.
(P.S.: I was filming the initial part of this moonrise with my phone, which literally had a white dot moving through the picture. I consequently found the time-lapse feature on a slightly more sane camera and continued with that.)