Regular readers of my marriage blog will know I’m a big advocate of together time. All couples need that time together to revitalize their relationship. Yesterday was such a day for us.
It wasn’t that we both didn’t have a million things needing to be done. We did. But nothing is more important than our marriage and we were aware it had been ages since we’d just had a day out together.
We decided to go down the coast to a place called Birdland, as I discovered they had owls. I love and collect owls of ceramic, wood and glass. I really wanted see live owls. So after Mick had been to the physiotherapist with his Achilles tendonitis and I’d done the critical work, we took off. It was a sunny day, though breezy when we stopped at Ulladulla. Many places in Australia have Aboriginal names. Ulladulla means ‘safe harbor.’
After coffee at Ulladulla we set off for Batemans Bay and Birdland. We were both expecting a bigger complex with more animals and birds. There were plenty of peacocks with the iridescent colors and amazing tails, and gold pheasants and other birds with myriad colors. When Mick and I looked at them, we wondered how anyone can not believe in a Creator.
But I wanted to see the owls first. Since I was expecting lot of owls was disappointed to find only two, both asleep huddled up in the furthest perch almost away from view. Still took a couple of photos, some even with their eyes open and then wandered around looking at alpacas, despite the bossy emu who tracked us from the other the other side of the wire and seemed to believe he was the star attraction. We saw deer, wombats, wallabies and kangaroos of varying types. But we can see kangaroos any day here at home. The only difference is the kangaroos there were used to tourists and being fed so they were willing to hang around and be patted. The ones here are wild kangaroos and take off if anyone gets too close. Mick went to look at the snakes. while I took photos of the wombats.
Then we wandered around hand in hand talking and laughing. It didn’t matter that the place itself was disappointing and you know why? It didn’t matter because we were together, enjoying being together and that’s the main thing. We still had a happy together time.
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