WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOON?

August 13, 2010 Saturday

We noticed this a few weeks ago when we were with the Cahoons, but I don’t think I wrote about it. Back home, a less than full moon stands on its end. Over here, it lies on its back. May some astronomy expert can explain it. My feeble mind hasn’t been able to figure it out.
We went out to the bird observatory this afternoon. The Broome Bird Observatory has more varieties of birds stop here than any other place in Australia. It’s located on Roebuck Bay which is on the east side of our peninsula. The local Town Beach is on the west of the bay and the Observatory sits on the northern side of the bay. Cable Beach, the big tourist draw, is on the west side facing the Indian Ocean. Its sand is white/gray. Roebuck Bay’s sand is red. The rocks around the bay and all the way around the southern end of the peninsula are red and beautiful. In fact, when we were on the beach at the observatory, part of the ocean close to shore looked red. It was like something was under the water stirring up the sand. We took a picture. I hope it turns out.
The birds that stop here are on their migratory trip from southern Australia and New Zealand and will eventually end up in Siberia for the summer. They lay their eggs and start their chicks on the way to adulthood in Siberia. Sounds like a long trip to the maternity hospital to me. We did see a beautiful white egret standing in a mangrove tree waiting for something tasty to swim by. (The mangroves are almost covered during high tide and left standing in the mud during low tide.) There was a sign warning about crocodiles in the area. Strange, you don’t see any of those signs on the side of the bay where Broome is. The road out there isn’t paved and was quite sandy in places. A wallaby hopped across the road in front of us on the way back to town. I wasn’t fast enough with the camera to get his picture.