Hi Folks,
The weather has finally improved a bit and my outlook has followed. We pottered around this morning attending to housekeeping duties in many areas, from backing up the GPS tracks to zip mending and breaking out the fishing gear in the sunshine.
Our activity today was walking to Russell Falls and then onto Lady Barron falls.
I am sure Russell Falls is one of the most photographed waterfalls in Australia. We walked through the temperate rain forest marvelling at the tree ferns up to 3 metres high and the swamp gums reaching 80 metres. Lady Barron falls are much smaller but still attractive. It was a pleasant afternoons walking of around 3 hours duration.
We returned late afternoon and had some cheeses, wine and nibbles. I had a few casts into the Tyenna River next to our campsite not expecting success. My expectations were met! I also rode down the road a bit to check out other fishing locations in this stream. Susan cooked a curry for tea.
After tea I strolled around to see platypus which I did but I had left it a bit late and it was too dark. Plan b was then to walk up towards the falls and see the glow worms which were present in reasonable numbers.
Returning to camp I was writing the blog around 1130 and Susan sent me out to investigate the rustling. Damn we left the vegetables out in unzipped Coles bags and are now minus the tomato’s, half a dozen carrots and the cucumber is well mangled by the possums. I am miffed at our oversight. I had earlier applied a stick to one that was running around on the tent roof. We have been keeping the veggies in the tent but because it was warmer in there today Susan decided to take them out and I didn’t see them when I did the possum cover up. Mind you if that is the worst thing that happens to us we don’t have much to complain about.
We will wait to see the weather before we commit ourselves to an activity tomorrow. If fine we will drive back up the mountain for some more adventurous walking
We are still battling to surf the net as it is very slow here to the point of being unusable between 4 and 11 pm which frustrates us both!
Night folks
Cheers Simon
Russell Falls!
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