Green Cape trip

 Needing to get fuel for the Pajero in the near future I noticed that the price of diesel at the cheapest place in Eden was 199.9c/l: 32 cents less than Mallacoota. Is the Mallacoota servo (or their wholesaler) working on a business plan that says they have a captive market so gouge it before the tourists leave? No surely not. 😂

There were also a few groceries we needed that would be better priced in in Eden, so off we went, deciding that we would call in to Green Cape on the way home.

The drive in to Green Cape was enlivened by crossing with a few Muppets who seemed to either think it was a one way road or not have worked out that it was a dirt. (Note from the future: on the way back I estimate we crossed with at least 15 cars, all displaying this quality of conductivity.)

Our first stop was Pulpit Rock which on our previous visit had been our first sight of the Shearwater migration. This time there were only about 50 here rather than the 10,000 I estimated last visit. Here is an optimistic shrub growing above the rock platform.

This is the view to the North.

A clip showing the colour of the water off the rocks and the pattern of the backwash.  The larger waves were breaking into the pool visible above the run off.

Definitely a Hakea: I suspect H. decurrens.

The most common shrub was Banksia serrata known as Old Man Banksia or Sawleaf Banksia.  Most plants had some nice flowers.  It being a National Park they are all still there.

A view over the heath.

Spot the birdie!  A New Holland Honeyeater: the closely related Tawny-crowned Honeyeater was Bird a Day.

We finished by driving down to the Lighthouse, which we found a lot more exposed to wind than Pulpit Rock or the heath.  There were more (~300) Shearwaters here as well as a Gannet and a Kestrel.