Lunch with the boulevarde gals. Great chat, chai and chances for exchange. Always a treat and look at that beautiful Burmese cat.

Outside the cafe with traffic passing and the gloom of the cloudy day hanging around i heard the lovely call of this magpie atop the wires ... Bird on a pole ... I wondered about his/her partner and being able to make out the call over the dense noisy din. Just after I took the photo, lo a text message from ms barry that I had been spotted camera to sky. All that happened while kirsty was checking out the rather confronting decor in the cafe loo. Then we contin...

More beach walking in Maroubra, the surf was fairly calm but the water was great evidently. A bright day for the beginning of the Easter and Anzac Day holidays.

Before packing, this beautiful good Friday morning offered the opportunity for a walk by the blue and over the sandstone. What a great start to the day.