MARGARET RIVER - OSPREYS AND WINERIES

MARGARET RIVER AND WINERIES

So many wineries in Margaret River region, it's very confusing - so we just buy from the bottle shops and pay the supermarket prices and take pot luck.  If you have a developed taste for wines, then a tour is the best way to go - you can taste to your hearts content without having to drive.

The photo on the left is a poster showing lots of cellar doors, as they are advertised on the roadside and then in you go and get tasting - and buying and spending an awful lot of money on nice wines.





This is the end of the actual Margaret River - in summer it comes to a halt separated

by a sand spit from the ocean.  In winter it rages through directly.  You are forbidden to dig trenches across the sand to make it drain away in the summer, as that causes problems further back for wildlife that depend on the remains of the river.

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

What with goannas eating birds and last years snake eating snake, now we got close in to an osprey eating a fish.  I know its been done a million times better, but we were so close and watched it eating for around 15 minutes - magical and just like the real documentaries.

Just before we got the real close ups, we saw the osprey on its nest and then watched as a kestrel dive bombed it over and over.  So many times that I managed to get several photos of it - should have used video, but not that expert yet.

Have got a great video of the osprey and fish, but can't get the camera to download the video over wifi, so may have to wait for that one.  Will try and include in blog at some stage.

Reminder to Witherslack Ospreys - much sunnier down here, high quality and quantity of fish and better views from the nest!