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It's so depressing sometimes, being a wildlife rescuer and rehabilitator. I came home yesterday and someone had landed a large green sea turtle on my front verandah. He was in really poor condition and I was worried that he maybe was full of plastic...which then makes them so buoyant that they can't dive for their tucker.
He was about a metre across.
I took him to a rockpool but noticed a very large stainless steel hook in his shoulder joint. (Stainless are the worst...the other kind just rust away in the salt water very quickly). He died. I did an autopsy and found the he had no plastic, a small amount of sea grass in his gut BUT the bone of his shoulder was just a putrid mess of badly smelling black stuff the consistency of a good loam soil.
People just can't seem to get it right!
He should have been wandering around the Barrier reef doing what turtles do and living for ages and ages.
Without Jass
She died. Quietly in my arms, just six months short of 18 years.
She is buried right front centre of my yard so I see her at all times. Forever in my head.
She died a year ago tomorrow.
I have no words but thousands of photos.
I planted a bare rooted rose called "Seduction" on her grave and I have had an unbelievable 10 months of continuous and beautiful roses and buds.
Jass just keeps on giving.
Winter Has Gone
Yes...I know it really isn't what you would call winter to some of you!
However, it was a stupendous whale migration as they thundered past , flapping their fins and doing backflips.
There must have been a lot of fish in my part of the Pacific because the dolphins and sharks didn't need to worry each other.
Seven people made the usual mistake of swimming in overcast, and early and naturally got bitten for their trouble. (Sharks, Great White, not whales or dolphins)
One local lifesaver who lives here had his ankle bitten through and they are still looking for his Achilles tendon, I believe.
One or possible two lost their lives and they m
Continuing Jass...
Joy all around in my home.
After four months of Jass being unable to have fun {and me being morose and frowning for her sake};
after convincing that my chiropractor could do dogs, not just people;
after spending day after day massaging her spine and reading her stories; (Taste runs to Daniel Silva...surprising);
after wrecking my left knee by lifting her in and out of cars and vets and up and down my front steps;
after spending a night sleepless worrying about how i would know when to say "Bye" and
after agonising about where she would best like to be buried...
after all of that, Jass can now do the steps and once I get her front paws
I'm Smiling
Sometimes I stop and listen I can hear the earth giving up its coal and gas, its water and its minerals. Sometimes I worry that we will tilt out of orbit with all the taking out and not much putting back.
I am continuously astonished by the tolerance and adaptability of our planet.
In fact, the latter is the reason I love this big old Earth so very much.
It just does what Darwin had to find and prove...adapt or die.
Two things give me peace and make me smile.
Animals and Nature, and often, with all this man made horror everywhere you look, I am just so grateful to have eyes and ears ,a sense of smell and skin to feel the wind , that I
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Well..at least some soul had the compassion to bring him to you. 
It is important to value the successes, yes. But also to remind the world of both the losses and the gains. Remind them of what should have been and what is.
Your passion is admirable, your calling worthy.
It is important to value the successes, yes. But also to remind the world of both the losses and the gains. Remind them of what should have been and what is. Your passion is admirable, your calling worthy.