Bart Bear's Blog

It's winter again. I don't like it very much. We have had our first frosts for the year and Mum leaves for work sometimes before the Sun breaks through the fog. Winter in Canberra is the pits. Unless you are a ski-bunny, which Scruffy, Milkshake and I are certainly not. In our opinion, water should not be in the form of cold white stuff that you slide across on planks, but should be nice warm liquid full of waves, boats and fish. We want to escape the cold and get back to one of the great islands that the Oldies take us to sometimes. We don't care which one as long as it has warm water and cold drinks. The nice, warm water in this picture is at Emily Bay on Norfolk Island. This is the clearest water I have ever seen, and it's full of coloured fish and really safe for the Oldies to snorkel in. Actually, it would be safe for small bears as well, but some of us are lumbered with a Mum that won't let us get wet. The tall, cold drink is one we "guarded" for Mum on another island, Daydream Island in the Whitsundays. We were there on a day trip from Hamilton Island and somehow the liquid level in the glass dropped considerably before Mum got back. The way Milky is balanced on Scruff to bring her mouth level with the straw may be a clue to what happened. Take us away to the tropics again, please.

Labels: beach, Canberra, Hamilton Is, Norfolk Is