I came back through Gippsland, pausing at Cape Conran. Some of the COG camping cohort might recall the excursion there a few years ago, led, as I recall, by Martyn Moffat and Noel Luff. Very few seabirds, no shorebirds, but the bushland
was in fine condition. The heath had been burnt in fires of last December and as a result had produced a textbook post-fires sea of flowering Xanthorrhoea. This was drawing in many birds including 2 species of lorikeet and 4 honeyeater species (more were
in the banksia, of course). I might have found more if the rain had been less persistent.
