KING OF THE TOPSOIL MOUNTAIN

 

A quiet weekend down the coast that included a lot of moving boxes across muddy planks. Broad beans and mustard are growing on the salvaged topsoil, of course Gracie claimed her rightful place as king of the mountain. Dylan practiced making tea on his special wood burning camping stove so as to avoid humiliation in front of his camping buddies.

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MOUNT BOGONG

A beautiful foggy weekend camping at Mount Bogong. At first the walking was a bit tough because I was just coming off what seemed to be a summer flu (who ever knew such a thing existed, but I guess when it rains so much in December that picnic tables are underwater anything is possible). But walking slower did give me a nice excuse to admire the beautiful hills and eerie forests of bone white trees.

Dylan, decked out as an Alpine Cowboy,  found a tarp floating in the river and that soon became the perfect little cooking shelter and nearby he spotted this curious little red flower like thing that seemed to produce rather a foul looking gundge that attracted flies. Close to sunset on our second day we discovered a sweet little waterfall that Dylan boldly, and I less so, climbed to the base of, where soft grass pillows provided a lovely place for a nap.

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