Bev has Joined me in Townsville and writes : I am on night duty tonight with 4 other staff so it is a good shift. Sometimes we are very busy.I am enjoying it here but I will be glad to work back in McB
Cicumcisions are practically routine. Midwives dont catch babies and meeting women for the first time on the way to a CS is a regular event. Apart from that -all the mums dads babies and staff are great.
I drive in to work on a six lane highway -not my favourite way to travel but when I get home we have a balcony that overlooks grazing wallaroos on the lawn and a bush turkey.The colourful lorikeets chatter in the gumtrees and lift off in a flurry of wings and screeches when the sea eagle swoops.
At evening the warm air fills with passing bats the stars twinkle and the frogs chorus.I have always loved australia.I have completed 2 watercoloursBeyond the gumtrees the Ross River glints from our balcony.
I take a plastic chair down by the water to paint.The dry grasses and leaf litter crackles when anything moves.Everything moves in aus.My solid walking boots feel safe on the ground seething with ants and my trousers are tucked securely into socks to delay prying visitors.
I know the snakes are active after winter hibernation so I try to be observant.I always disturb the turtles who sun themselves on the logs and they plop one by one into the river when I approach.One day there was a bigger splash which unnerved me.I settled into my chair to paint .Was there a floating log in the water.? So still for at least half an hour.I continued to work with a glance in the logs direction now and then.It submrged and confirmed for me that I had been supervised by a "freshy."
The fresh water crocodiles are not aggressive so I was never in danger
Bev
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