Day 1 and 2

Day ONE
Left Manly Vale feeling slightly strange and surreal. So many people had asked us if we were excited to be going, but because the house had been such an enormous task to get ready for renting, there had been no time to be excited, and then suddenly we were AWAY. Very odd.

Made it to Bathurst, where unfortunately the gun shop had just closed, where D had hoped to buy his arrows for hunting. We decided to camp not far from Bathurst, so that we could pick them up on Monday (and secretly thought that Robin Hood probably didn’t have this sort of trouble).
To our camp spot near near Mundora, down a 5 Km dirt track, by a large bubbling stream – beautiful, and free! Total fire ban at all times on the reserve, but luckily we had the stove in the caravan. Err, no gas. Remembering how Shils and I had laughed with such merriment that morning at the idea that Darren would not check the bottle, the joke was on me. Mr ‘We can never be too prepared’, hmmmm?
Cold beans, with a bit of cheese for dinner.
Exhausted…slept 12 hours under 2 duvets and a blanket – freezing!

Day TWO 13 09 09 Nature Reserve

Sleep….ZZzzzzzzzzz
Only interrupted when I heard Darren calling me urgently by the river, to come immediately with my camera. Got up convinced I would find him fallen in the river. I found him watching a beautiful ….., which blended in amazingly with the rushes and dry grasses of the area. Our 1st bit of wild life – very exciting!
More cold beans for dinner….