The Bathurst 12 Hour 2015

Mt. Panorama. 

The event is finally starting to attract a reasonable number of spectators and with Channel 7 providing live coverage and the free publicity from the V8 Supercar decision to run a practice day on the same weekend this year, next year should be even better. It was a pity that the race was interrupted so many times, the mountain proved too hard to handle for many of the drivers.

For me it was a very satisfying result, to see Nissan beat the best Europe has to offer with a single car team was very sweet. Even better was the way Nissan kept it's full performance advantage under wraps until the last few laps, Katsumasa Chiyo made it look so easy as he powered past the Aston, Bentley and Audi and then drove off into the distance.

Got to get some of those noodles.

One of these would be nice too, not sure what it does but I know I need one.

Maybe they know how it works.

The busiest man at the track, didn't stop all day.

Eastern Water Dragon & Litoria Littlejohni

Living beside a National Park means that we share the property with many native species, wallabies, snakes, spiders and lizards are regular visitors. About two years ago the first water dragon appeared, we now seem to have two or three and they have grown a lot since the first sighting. They become very tame and enjoy a swim in our pool on hot days, the one in the following photo was resting in a staghorn near our kitchen, another favourite spot is under the cover of the BBQ. I think this one is female and is probably about two years old, they can grow to 50cms, males slightly larger than that.

Another recent arrival is this small frog, must have been named after one of our former prime ministers as there is a strong family resemblance, Litoria Littlejohni is its scientific name. It has been living in our sun umbrella for the past two weeks and is almost the same colour as the umbrella and the garden table. Just as well as I am sure frogs are on the water dragon menu.