September visit to Stanpit Marshes

Only seven of us turned up at Stanpit Marshes and we only saw twenty-eight species of birds, these included cormorants, oyster catchers, egrets and one heron. It wasn't too cold and at times it got quite warm in the sun. One curiosity we came across a style mechanism for letting dogs through. Bridget led the way as Mike could not be there and we had fun coming back, a spring tide which was surging through when we first started to enter the low lying marsh area blocked the way after we had spent some time looking out over the mud flats. Making our way back we found the tide had also made the path we had come in even more impassable without getting wet.
After that amusing episode we tried to cut across through a little used path to the other side and this was an obstacle course with brambles doing their best to stop us.
You have to be tough to stay with us.
Next month on Friday the 26th again at Goatee Beach by the toll bridge.