Wee Jasper.

So.....We spent two nights at the Billy Grace Reserve at Wee Jasper. It is about 90 minutes away from Canberra. Practically our whole time there was accompanied by the raucous calls of hundreds of sulphur crested cockatoos in the trees about us which eventually made me wish I had taken up archery or at least owned a sub machine gun.We found a quiet spot to camp, though the site was not too busy, but some of the other campers seemed to be in large family groups, incapable of walking to the shower block....they actually got in their cars and drove the 100 metres there and back again!Will scared one potential neighbour away by wildly playing his mandolin.On the Wednesday we drove up the valley for a short walk up Micalong creek and then travelled further along the dirt road to Tumut before heading back for lunch. After lunch we went to Carey's Caves.....and there was not much time left to do anything else after that!....(more on that later).We woke yesterday to the first blue sky since we have been down here and drove back to Canberra via Mountain Creek Rd, spotting an echidna on the way.It seems we made the right decision to head west. The coast has been inundated with rain and we watched on the news last night as some poor campers, still trapped by flood water, were brought extra supplies to tide them over until they can get out.

We're back!

We had a great time...will post more later.

A change of plan.

So...because the South Coast has had record breaking rainfall yesterday we are no longer heading to the coast today. We are heading further inland to hopefully drier climes to a place called Wee Jasper.....who named these places?There may be no phone signal where we are going so this maybe the last you hear of me until Thursday night. Adieu.

Pod Play.

So.....a planned trip to the cinema to see 'The Good Dinosaur' was cancelled after Phoebe decided it might be too scary for her. We returned to the National Arboretum to try the Pod Play area that we had not had time to do on our last visit.We then drove to Belconnen for shopping for our camping trip. We drove all around the car park looking for  space and eventually found one just as we were losing the will to live.We got all we needed at the supermarket but then had to queue for ages at the till as there were only two open and the one we were at was manned by a fellow who looked 97 who was tapping the till screen as if he had never seen one before. To say he was miserable is an understatement.It practically rained all day and the weather forecast is for more of the same....Oh Joy!

To Canberra.