I was happy to see two platypus out foraging after the river was running bright orange from top soil coming down Black Fellow's Falls after a big storm. Water was still murky, but brown and not orange anymore.
Good water flow, but still quite turbid.
1 scratching intensly. Water had a pretty strong film on it.
One platypus out swimming around and scratching in fairly fast flowing, but murky water after rain.
1 large individual swimming and diving. Water is a little clearer now.
1 very active and rather small individual diving and foraging in middle of river and then playing on a log near the bank for a long time. Possibly a puggle. River was running quite well after recent rain.
1 platypus out swimming around and scratching. Very dirty water from trucks crossing all day long to do up the road further up.
Watched a fairly large and very active individual swimming and diving all the way up the loop of the river and float back down. It kept foraging for an entire hour until it got too dark for us to watch.
1 individual wimming around in pretty mucky water after long weekend of traffic and a bit of rain.
Seemed to be the larger individual that we normally see further up. Out foraging in the sunshine on the water, pretty late.