August 1 - 31, 2025: Issue 645

 

Turimetta Moods: 

Week ending Friday  22 Aug 2025 

by Joe Mills

What a wet and miserable week.  Not much to photograph, but did manage to get some pics at Warriewood Beach in the pouring rain.  Most people sat in their cars waiting for a break in the weather & for the usual morning sunrise.  Not to be.

The brave souls were the 8 surfboard riders, and one local swimmer (Kel) who joined them for a swim.

This morning I went for my weekly swim at the Sports Academy Pool and managed some pics of flood silt around Narrabeen Lake at the Middle Ck Reserve.

What impressed me was the dedication of the nesting Plover right next door to the pool.  I have spotted her on the same bare site two weeks in a row.  So I assume she has been sitting there continuously for more than a week, in the past days of rain & wind.  I hope she has success, because she deserves it.

Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the the bill or the claw.

Henry Ward Beecher

As always, enjoy nature.

Joe

Warriewood Beach, Tuesday August 19, picture taken through windscreen of my car during pouring rain

Warriewood Beach, Tuesday August 19, picture taken through windscreen of my car during pouring rain - surfer heading in

Warriewood Beach, Tuesday August 19, a break in the rain and clouds

Warriewood Beach - local swimmer Kel contemplating a dip

Foleys Nursery Demolition at Warriewood, old home half demolished, Wednesday August 20

Warriewood, flooding along Brands Lane, Wednesday August 20

Foleys Nursery Demolition at Warriewood, old store and sheds are gone, Wednesday August 20

Foleys Nursery Demolition at Warriewood, proposed new homes on advertising signage at property

Warriewood sunset, Thursday August 21 - another small break in the rain

Middle Creek Reserve, Friday August 22, rain and mist over the water and trees

Middle Creek Reserve, Friday August 22, silt on the shoreline from flooding

Lapwing Plover nesting alongside Narrabeen Sports Academy swimming pool - she has been there for 2 weeks so far