Whales and Parrots

Michael and I have seen our first whales from the verandah! We were out there at lunch time, having a bit of a scan of the sea with our telescope and Michael picked up some small whales wave-slapping and blowing; Minke whales, perhaps? Very exciting! We stayed out watching them for about half an hour, taking it in turns to look through the telescope...

A few minutes ago I just had a 'parrot encounter'! A beautiful King parrot (a smallish parrot with lovely green body feathers, a red and yellow collar and a bright blue head with a red beak) flew down to the verandah rail while I was admiring the view and had a whole chirruping conversation with me, not six inches in front of me, turning its head this way and that and clearly asking why we've taken down the parrot food block that we used to hang up. I explained, very politely, that we were fed up of being woken at dawn by flocks of King parrots squabbling about who could have the next peck at the bird food... It had a bit more of a conversation with me and flew off - absolutely unafraid.