Okay, only metaphorically our backyard… but we got there on foot in less than ninety minutes, and that’s at child pace.  In my own garden, the cut the critters take makes me want to weep.  It’s a lot more fun watching the surplus of Waratah Bay feeding the locals.

The light blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus

Soldier crabs being rounded up by the kids. Sorry guys.

Light blue soldier crab, coming to get me

A crab-eating goanna was a first for me.

Crab eating goanna looking pretty happy

Goanna digging for crabs

A decent mouthful

Even a bunch of yelling kids couldn’t drive this white-faced heron from a great seafood buffet.

White faced heron hunting at low tide

Heron eating a crab

And this time a squid.

No pics of the circling white-bellied sea eagle, but you’ll be pleased to know, it too caught a fish.

One of Sydney’s “lungs” – Kuring-gai National Park

Mangroves

Epacris longifolia flowering a metre or two from the tideline