Badger Galore
Staying ‘Up Over’ for a while.
Encounters.
So...since Anne saw her first tiny spider on her third night she has seen her first snake, slithering across the road near the 'Frogknot' gate as we headed off in the car. Last night she saw Galore in the tree outside Blue Moon...
And today, while home alone as both Will and I were working, she encountered a fox wandering up the road with, what she thought was, a hen in it's mouth. Happily all our hens are accounted for so we are not sure where that one came from.
A Trip to Tenterfield.
So...today, while Will was making cheese, Anne and I went south to Tenterfield. Tenterfield is in New South Wales, 50 kms away from Frogknot and about a 35 minute drive. Tenterfield is the birthplace of Peter Allen, a songwriter, musician and entertainer and the first husband of Liza Minelli. Tenterfield is also famous for being the place that Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, delivered his famous federation speech in 1889. This speech led to the Federation of Australia in 1901. The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.Anne was disappointed by the shops but still managed to find some earrings to buy. We had a hot chocolate, saw the view from Mount Mackenzie, visited the Cork Tree, the Weather Rock and the Henry Parkes Museum.
Queen of the Castle.
So...today we finally escaped the confines of Frogknot for a bush walk in Girraween National Park. We took Anne up Castle Rock. It was sad to see the aftermath of the recent bushfire in February for the first time though it was not as bad as we expected it to be and already there are signs of new growth returning...
Taking in the Sun.
Anne enjoying some sunshine at last in front of a pair of my underpants.