Off the radar....

Van at wollemi
Strike a pose!
Where next?!

mmmm attractive!!

Hi All.

This may very well be our last post for a month or so, as we will be picking pears for the next four weeks, and weekly photo’s of soft fruit may not be very exciting!!!

The Photos above of us are to remind you of us, and also a little “tan comparison” before shot, as four weeks in the sun is going to improve our current factor 30 aided tan considerably!!!

Right! Update! Last wed – fri was spent in the Wollemi National Park at a place called Newnes, which was an old Oil shale mining town from 1904 to 1939(see the photo’s) We were quite shocked to find a bit of intact history! The campsite was the most remote we have been to yet, 40km gravel road to get there, bless the van it got a bit of a shaking, but, again, well worth the drive. We were right under huge cliff faces.

We walked a total of 30km in 2 days. One walk around the old ruins of the buildings and one along the old train route in to the valley, with the highlight being the glow-worm tunnel. Awesome!!! (see photo’s)

We have now left the Northern Beaches, and are now currently retracing our post Christmas steps that we took with Tali and Nick. We departed the Croan household (Thanks again you guys) on Saturday and set off on the Princes Highway south in the direction of Melbourne.

On the Saturday evening –after visiting Kiama with it’s famous blow hole, that decided not to blow that day- we stayed at Green Patch campground (V-Busy) at Jervis Bay. Beautiful, white (possibly the whitest yet) beach and inland lagoon.

In the morning we set off to Pebbly beach (Kangaroo colony on beach you may remember) where we have now decided to stay until Friday morning, firstly because it has the perfect body surfing sized waves and 20 degree sea, and secondly it will allow us to visit Canberra on the way to the fruit farm without backtracking and adding extra journey time blah blah blah… riveting post huh guys!!!!.....

For anyone interested we will be picking pears at 36 dollars per bin at the McNab fruit farm somewhere in the region of Sheperton about 140km northeast of Melbourne from Monday 12^th Feb until Fri 9^th march!!! Wooo Hoooo. I detect pear consumption may be quite high!!

Right, Love to all, hope you haven’t all frozen to death!

Xx J&J