In the morning, after a well deserved sleep in, I was swept away for a drive into the bush to a secluded look out by my love. We sat on the cliff top admiring the beauty of Bathurst, west of the mountains, as it was beginning to become somewhat of a heat sink for the day. We finished off the fruit salad we brought with us and headed home to our house among the forest again.
My parents called to ask if we'd be interested in joining them for a walk up the mountains around lunchtime. We're about an hour west of Katoomba so it's a perfect spot for a short day trip. We ended up at the Comservation Hut at Wentworth Falls. There are a few walks that bypass or start or end here but we chose the short walk to Empress Falls and back. It was a real pity we forgot our cossie's because once we got down the bottom every man and his dog were jumping into the deep hole that the falls descend into. Dad didn't care whether or not he had his swimmers and took his shirt and shoes off and jumped in anyway for a quick dip. We could only take the liberty of dipping our feet in. While we were there at the bottom we noticed some abseilers turning up at the top of the falls and they promptly began descending the falls. It looked as if the water was coming out of a canyon itself so as you can imagine it was quite a shady little hollow. Then began the climb back out.
Turned out a lovely day though and managed to get quite a bit done!
Travel update!
So the other half is now feeling really positive about the Diploma he's just started. As a result he's determined to complete it to the best of his ability. This means we're postponing our plans of an extended stay in Europe together. While this is a bit of a pity, I'm determined to get back over and explore some new places. Luckily, my youngest sister is finishing high school this year. She has told me she'd prefer to save more money and give 'schoolies' (Australian end of school tradition of going away for a week to get drunk and party) a miss to fly to Europe and do a bit of backpacking. Mums not too keen on her going alone so I dutifully have put my hand up. This means the next 10 months I'll be trying to save for a short trip to waylay my travel bug until we're both ready to head off on that extended trip. Let's just hope Australian/British visas are still just as easy to get as they are today.
Otherwise, at the moment I've been divided between the new casual job, shifts here there and everywhere and the Forestry, spraying weeds with my singing supervisor (he's currently singing 'dancing with you in the summer rain' as he takes the weather readings before we start spraying again). And to finish the post I'll grace the page with some little snapshots our gorgeous weather over the past week has delivered us with.
(Taken in the backyard of the work Depo one morning at the start of the day)
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