Solitary Islands Coastal Walk - Woolgoolga to Korora

 

Day two of our big walk last week covered another 12 beaches, would you believe? 

Namely: Woolgoolga Back Beach, Hearnes Lake Beach, Sandys Beach, Fiddamans Beach, Emerald Beach, Shelly Beach, Moonee Beach, Sapphire Beach, Campbells Beach, Hills Beach, Opal Cove Beach, and Korora Beach.

 

 

We also had close encounters with several of those solitary islands, and with a Brahminy kite. 

 

 

 

 

 With a surfer needing help getting dressed too!

Dollarbird!

I saw him chasing insects from his perch on the power lines outside yesterday. He was very handsome, and he was completely new to me. He's a dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis).

Somehow I'd never heard of him, let alone spotted one of his kind. 

The books and the birdo sites don't actually seem to indicate that dollarbirds are particularly rare in Sydney. Like the channel-billed cuckoo and the koel, they are summer visitors from New Guinea and Indonesia.