Thursday 20 June 2024 Cuttagee

 Cuttagee's entranced closed earlier in the week and filled during the next couple of high tides

Feeling stretched, supple and soothed after a yoga session, S gets ready to paddle.

Around 11.10am the last of us launched and we headed off upon glassy water, soaking in the sun and watching the bird life go by.

The resident Sea Eagles were also basking in the sun.

The silt jetties at the entrance to Cuttagee Creek took a hammering in the Coolagolite Bushfire on 3rd October last year.  Very little has regrown.

We stopped for lunch at the sunny end of the pebble beach up the creek. After which, with the occasional scraping and backtracking

we paddled up the creek until we ran out of water. 

Being chilly in the shade we did not linger and headed back down to sunlit water, espying a bit of puzzle in a dead tree on the silt jetty.  It seemed too small for a young Sea Eagle so could it be an Eastern Osprey?

A rare occurrence - glassy water paddling back down the lake. We were very happy :)

Another rare occurrence - two Greater Egrets and a third a little way back.

 

We ended the paddle about 3.20pm which allowed enough time to get home, get the fire lit and do the outside afternoon chores before the evening chill descended.

Trip Notes: See earlier entries.