After some stop-start commuting (meetings out of town requiring car use), I was back on the bike last night. Average ride home, part way with a work colleague, although the Tasman Bridge lights were again inspiring.

But coming in this morning, I saw a pelican about 10 metres away as I rode past Kangaroo Bay. Pelicans are fantastic big birds and are quite rare in Hobart. At least it didn't take flight and try to take my head off like a duck did about 12 months ago in the same location. That was a major surprise -- it took off quacking its head off, and passed about six inches above my helmet.

A little further around the bay, a goose and gander have nested there for the past two years. We have hissing contests as we pass. I think they know me now and the gander is less inclined to hiss and make an aggressive charge We'll wait to see what happens when the next brood hatches!

And oh yes, this is all in a suburban area. But Hobart's like that.

R