Just outside of Bendigo

Canberra

We visited Canberra for a night and stayed a a nice hotel called the Mantra room , equipped with Sauna. On arriving in the morning we set out to look at our parliament house and learnt more about the way our countries democracy works. And some stunning autumn reds that reminded me of sunsets.



Then we were recommended a picnic spot by the pc( police constable) on guard, the Coronilla, a interesting building overlooking the lake and the Captain cook fountain. The Coronilla is a musical instrument housing 43 Brass bells, they had a recital on during our picnic.



The next morning we visited the National museum, fascinating. We paid particular attention to 3 exhibitions which were 1) Eternity, a recording device to record a minute of your story for the future. 2) the Australian Dream, a map of Australia represented through symbolic elements and 3) Ngurrara which talked of home, a beautiful tapesrty.

Bega- Walumla

We were recommended to visit Bega which seemed not to want to have us after calling 6 woof venues that were full or not taking woofers at that time! Until Andrews partner Sue needed a hand moving a door:) it was a beautiful drive down and we had the oppourtunity to watch a great movie I throughly recommend " The business of being born" www.businessofbeingborn.com . It looks at fertility and birth in the western world and shows the beauty of Natural Births from a balanced perspective.

Photos to come.

Central Tilba

I milked cows!! :) How cool is that. Central Tilba was great we milked cows, made cheese, learn't about alpaca's, Justin created a retaining wall and I created a rock Zen garden. Andrew was our gracious host who gave us some great information on insulation and heating house's :)





MOOOOO!!!!

The Zen Garden Creation :)

Robertson

I had my Birthday with Rose and Penelope.















I was spoilt by Justin all morning and it didn't stop until bed ! In the morning Rose took us out to her property called "Temenos" which means sacred spacee. It is a beautiful property.







Then we went to the Illawara Fly , a forest walk 30 meters off the ground and Rose bought us lunch for my birthday. We got to see Wollongong and even Sydney from a very different view.


We also got to see all the local magic spots, some lovely waterfalls that we would never had seen unless Rose had shared them with us. Coming from Barrington Rose was like a sanctuary where we felt appreciated and very welcome.















We made a stone BBQ for her which was great fun learning and experimenting how to build with stone and mortar.

We also spent a night on her property camping. MAGIC. That night we cooked over a fire, watched the city sparkle in the distance, had a roaring fire and twirled. The next morning we watched the sun rise over the ocean through the trees from our bed :)

Barrington Adventure Centre

Barrington - Gloucseter. We stayed with Brian and Naomi for a week and it rained for most of the time! It cleared up for the weekend and we were invited to go white water rafting with them, which was fantastic we got to see the counrty from a very different perspective. Justin also made a "luxury" compost bin for them, almost to beautiful for compost.