My nephew and I go to Perry Lakes for something different and find a wetland 3.64m high following rain and water diversion from Noogenboro Lake Herdsman nearby (we find where the drain seems to come out). Also here are some of the birds not seen recently at Galbaamanup Lake Claremont, such as the white-bill-tipped-and-eyed hardhead, the blue-billed bluebill boodoo, the long-white-billed kakka-bakka spoonbill, the orange-legged shovel-billed bardoobgooba the Australian shoveler, marangana the woodduck with twelve chicks, the breeding Australasian grebe. All of these birds are currently absent from Galbamaanup, but all of them are here, just nearby…with, of course, the usual coots and swamphens and swans, ibis and corellas and magpies and kookaburras…and so on.

We then drive across lower lands to Noogenboro Lake Herdsman itself. It is a different mindset that drives sticking to lower points in the land, rather than one that sticks to the quickest route. We park and walk further down to the lake—an Ibis, some Pacific black ducks, a mudlark, and someone spotting birds. The city lies in the background.