Bush and Rainforest
Home for us is Cedar Creek (between Samford and Dayboro north west of Brisbane). It is a beautiful mix of bush and rainforest. We stumbled across it while out for a drive one day and a beautiful piece of land with enormous granite boulders and the most lovely energy (it was nearly dark at the time and pouring with rain).
While the commute into the city for work has been stressful at times, and we do have to contend with certain “bush challenges” coming home has always felt like a peaceful haven. I think we might live here forever!
Cedar Creek is a lovely water course and occasionally during heavy rain it flows down from the falls at Mount Glorious and we get flooded in. The kids used to think this was fabulous on a school day. We have lots of whip birds which is a sound I strongly associate with home and the Australian bush. Very occasionally we have sacred kingfishers visit and do a noisy skim of the pool surface. We have a very friendly currawong who loves to collect the red bangalow palm berries and soak them in all my birdbaths (he is able to put piles and piles into them some weeks) and he has once left a present at my back glass door - a strand of red palm berries perfectly lined up with the door opening and perpendicular with the decking board lines - quite clearly meant as a gift!
There is the kookaburra family who have their nest in a high termite mount in a gum tree with a hole in it. When they renovate it they are very noise drumming away to make space and their babies are very insistent about getting regular meals as the parents go back and forward to the nest all day.
We have a little yellow belly robin whose domain is around a pavilion at the back and lots of cute wrens (my favourite bird of all time - so heart lifting to see them which is why we made the blue wren the logo for Brisbane Wellbeing Clinic, our therapy business).
Our most frequent visitors are the king parrots - the most frequent visitor my daughter Maddie has called Tropicana. He likes to peer in through the windows for entertainment. Occasionally he brings his harem of 5-6 girlfriends.
There is the cockatoo gang who are very inquisitive but menaces for biting off yellow flowers (daffodils in the rare instances I can get them to grow here are a prime target) and squarking. However they are extremely helpful at announcing when a lace monitor (big huge prehistoric looking lizard) is roaming the area and refuse to leave until the lizard has departed - meaning the chook eggs in the chook house are always safe!
