Platypus at last!

We kitted ourselves like true nature observers, with plenty of alcohol to keep us going and made our way to the viewing platform. The rules are that you have to be extremely quiet and just watch for any ripples in the water. We sat for ages watching terrapins swim about and staring at anything that moved, or our imagination thought had moved, for ages. The water was totally brown due to the nature of the river so you couldn’t see below the surface at all. We were joined by another couple, and a guy with the most enormous lens. There was lots of whispering between the other people, and the big-lensed guy started to focus on an area to the left. We all started looking and I asked the man where it was, he pointed out the most enormous and still looking platypus which looked more like a dead seal, but we all got excited and took photographs anyway. After the subject of our excitement neglected to move at all for over 10 minutes we began to realise that it may not actually be a platypus.