I took my children aged 6 & 7 to hopefully get a glimpse of the platypus. To their surprise the platypus swam so close to the rock we were sitting on.  Our sitting still and quiet for an hour paid off.

I will never forget the looks on their faces.  This was about 3pm on a very overcast day.  Later on we witnessed two platys rolling while holding into their mates tail.

A pair of platypus appear to be breeding in one of the spots we reported them last year - just downstream from the Andrew Drynan Reserve. They are turning up there most evenings and have been for some weeks

I saw a swirl in a little farm dam this morning and thinking it might be a duck went for a closer look, but it was a platypus.

It surfaced 4 times in 2 or 3 minutes.

I'll be back tomorrow morning for another look.

We've had platypus on our property for the 30 years that we've lived at Running Creek (17km southeast of Rathdowney), until the big flood of early 2008 that demolished 5 bridges and took about 96% of the trees along the riparian strip, uprooting them and probably demolishing platypus burrows.

Since the worst of it happened in the middle of the night, we can only hope the platypus were out feeding and were swept downstream, rather than crushed underground.

After a lengthy spell without them we now have 3 of them in our home stretch of creek again - presumably a mated pair and their young from the recent breeding season.

Disappeared, then it came up again. Who'd have thought you would see a platypus in a Brisbane creek surrounded by houses and roads. I always thought they must be endangered as nobody ever sees them. How lucky I was. Good luck to the Enoggera Creek monitoring group - they will see a platypus again no doubt.