Green Stuff

Being sub tropical there is plenty of green stuff around here. Chris is forever stopping to pick up a leaf or bit of strange grass to add to his 'collection' of vegetation from around the world. Not far from the hotel is a small man made park. Its very popular with people 'speed walking' or jogging later in the day when the temperatures dropped a bit. Its full of interesting vegetation, has water running through it (always muddy from the heavy rains and flash floods) and quite a few fruit trees with things resembling apples and small dark 'plum' type things. You quite often see the odd pensioner with a long stick knocking the 'apples' off but nothing (birds included) seems interested in the plums. They smell sweet enough but nobody is going to put the taste to the test. Palm trees are dotted around everywhere, lining roads and streests and forming the center pieces of ornate garden sections out side places.

 For some strange reason we have hardly seen any birds; I cant imagine they have flown anywhere as its summer here; I would have expected the trees to be full of them with all the fruit but no.