Day 40 - Sunday Feb 14th

Sunday morning sunshine. Awoke at ten past seven. This is not the place to sleep your life away. There is a gorgeous view to be had, and I'd like to spot the Koala. Coffee in hand I went onto the veranda to greet the new day. I was greeted by an army of birds all trying to out sing each other.

Can't remember if we did breakfast or had it at the store come cafe but we did go for a drive up to the next wee hamlet. There are a powerful lot of cigars about here!

Kennet River or more specifically, Grey River Road has a lot of youngish Gum or Eucalyptus trees. There is something like four hundred species of this tree, but only three I think attract Koalas to live and eat in them.
Grey River Road has an abundance of them, and an equally large number of Koalas. We drove up this road for about a mile and saw twenty odd of the wee fur balls. That is quite magical, but don't ever expect them to be energetic. The busiest they get is when they scratch themselves.

We went back to the house, Trevor was keen to show me how to do beer can chicken on the barby and I was a keen student.
Lunch was lovely; the chicken will definitely be on the Rossdale Menu this year.

Time for farewells. Trevor had a long drive in front of him, and it was threatening rain.
We were in the meantime having a wee drink on the veranda enjoying the sounds and smells of the bush. Life is good, until the Australian rain comes a calling.
Huge peels of thunder and equally vivid flashes of lightning, which incidentally lit up the whole ocean. Spectacular. We'd already done Thunderstorms at Nicola's and got bored easily. We wanted something almost as thrilling so we got the scrabble out. I was just winning when without warning, the power went off. Where are the candles I thought? I'd seen a torch earlier on the landing beside the bush fire evacuation bag. Aha, like a young Adam I prowled about looking for the candles. None. Nothing until I found another torch in the larder.
Don't forget we were out in the wilderness here. Not an outside light to be seen anywhere.
Spooky.
We went to bed; it wasn't early, about 11:40 or so.


This was Valentines Day, neither flowers nor cards. Maybe next year, eh Nicola. Yesterday was Kim's birthday. We couldn't get a signal on our phones so there were no choruses of Happy Birthday to You down the line. Later maybe.