Day 2: Our Morning Visitors!

On our first morning at the motel, as we were getting ready to go out and explore the town, we had some visitors =D A pair of kookaburras! They were so cute!!! They came right up to us, and didn't mind us taking pictures of them:

They watched us a lot during the time we were there - and we watched them a lot back! 

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Day 2: Breakfast with the Birdies! =D

On our first morning at the motel, we woke up and had breakfast with the birds =D 

Ducks, galahs and corellas

A rosella came to watch us =D

Galahs in a tree

The view to the side of our room

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Day 1 of Our Holiday =)

This week, my family went on a short holiday to a place near Echuca in Victoria, Australia. There were lots of birds there =D Here are some pictures from the first day of our trip, and traveling to our destination:

Lake Mulwhala:

A millipede at the motel... there were LOTS of them!!! 

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Freddle

Freddle is my baby severum. He was born in my house last year, and was too small to go to the pet shop with his brothers and sisters. We thought that he might not survive because he was so small and stressed. He used to sit in the tree gasping for air when he was teeny, which was a pretty worrying sign! Anyway, I have been hand feeding him meal worm guts to supplement his diet and try to get him to put on weight and grow. I am really happy to say that all these months later, he is going really well! 

Here are some pics of him (or maybe her - it is difficult to tell the sex of a severum until they are a bit bigger) taken in December:

Here are some newer pictures that I took this morning. He is hard to take pictures of now because he is so fast and energetic! He is more severum-shaped now, and his baby stripes are getting lighter (although, he can change his colors and make his stripes darker when he gets excited, especially around feeding time!)

He is still quite small for his age (although the rate of growth among baby severums varies somewhat), but he is acting happy and healthy, and is eating well. Here are some pictures of him tonight =D

He now enjoys catching and eating small earthworms! 

Hopefully he will continue to thrive and grow into a big healthy adult severum one day, just like his parents =D

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Shelley and Franklin as Babies =)

It is hard to believe that Franklin and Shelley turned two years old this month! Here are some pictures of them as babies (although, I still consider them to be my babies!)

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 Now they are this size:

I love our babies!!!!

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Sleepy Turtle!

Shelley seems sleepy today... perhaps that means he was up hunting fish all night! I tried to sneak and take some pictures of him because he looked so cute! (They came out a little blurry, but you can still see the cuteness!)

My camera and I soon attracted the attention and curiosity of Shelley's brother, Franklin... (That's him on the left, coming over for a closer look!)

Unfortunately, turtles are not overly concerned with not disturbing each other's sleep! Sleeping Shelley's shell made a handy resting spot for Franklin's hand... 

Shelley sleepily glanced at him, and eventually went up for some air. 

Poor Shelleykin! I'm pretty sure he is planning on going back to sleep now :)


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