What a treat we had on our working bee in September. The weather was balmy and Spring was in evidence everywhere.
There were sweeping vistas of green grass dotted with brilliant yellow wattle on rounded domes of bushes. Other green bushes with a sprinkling of taller trees were scattered among the wattles. Open flats were covered by smaller bushes with white or yellow flowers. Poking up through the middle of some of these bushes were purple daisies.
Birds were darting in and out of the bushes to their nests which are so well hidden that we only spied two of them while we were there. Spiders were cautiously creeping out of their holes in the ground and popping back quickly if they saw any movement. A lone sleepy lizard was having his lunch of grass.
The wombats have been busy scratching out their burrows and tentatively opening up old burrows untenanted since the drought.
Our main purpose for the working bee was digging up weeds but who minds weeding when you can walk through such scenery as you work amid the quiet and beauty of Moorunde.
Berna Clements
Natural History, Oct-Nov 1984
Wattle (Acacia sp.) in flower at Moorunde.