Granite Country

About once a month I go to Cowra to get 'little llama lollies' for the 'team'.  My journey takes me through some spectacular granite country around Reids Flat and Frogmore:

Out here, fencing is pretty hard core!

Berry Auction and the Trip Home

Back from yet another successful but very tiring weekend at the Berry Auction - first time I've come home empty handed!  Very hard to sit on my hands, as there were some very very nice birds there :)

I stayed with Shayne and Brad - which was wonderful as always - thanks guys :)  In the early morning before I left I took some pics in and around their lovely house:

Shayne's muscovy ducks taking a tour of the garden with me :)

Minto, one of my very favouritist dogs - doing 'spin'.

Prior to taking the above pics I had attempted to get Minto to 'spin', get the background right, hold the camera.... all at the same time - this was the result!!  LOL!!  Something had to give, eh?

Shayne with some of her pekin chicks, later I delivered these babies to a lady and her 2 little kiddies in Goulburn :)  They were very excited about getting new chickens and this time, not all roosters!!

Took the back way home through Neriga, and that means crossing Oallen Ford - always pretty... and good if its not too deep to traverse!!

After Crookwell, it turns to granite country - I love it!  Huge lumps of rock stacked on top of each other, hillsides festooned (big word score right there) with boulders and the lambs leaping about all over them!

 A ewe and lambs crossing (or messing about in) Old Man Gunyah Creek.

Stopped at Pejar Dam, and left the car at the top, wandered down the downstream side and stood on a big rock that was very high up to take this one pic.... then got the heeby geebies and almost had to crawl off it!!  Hopeless!!  Pleased I managed to hold the camera still for this though!

St Barnaba's Anglican Church at Narrara, cold and isolated spot, complete with graveyard that seems to have a very high proportion of children's graves :(

This ewe and 3 lambs have been running loose on Corringle Lane for weeks.  Every second time I travel down it I miss seeing them, and think, good, someone has fixed that problem, but then next time.... and there they were again yesterday.  When I first saw them the lambs were all the same size, but I suspect that 2 are twins and the ewe is their mother, the other little guy has left his mother behind and is now 'dry' and thus not doing nearly as well.  Wishing and hoping their owner will notice them this week and return them to the paddock!!  (I've tried to find the owner, with no luck thus far.)

Home safe and time to enjoy watching some TV with my feet up - Kiki kinda happy to have me back ;-D

Tomorrow I hope to take pics of the new black alpacas, who are settling in nicely and learning about new things... like ducks!!  Today there has been a bit of ducks scaring alpacas, and alpacas scaring ducks which has been funny to watch!!

Tathra Road Trip - Getting There

Freya and I took a weekend trip to Tathra, meant getting up very early on Saturday and leaving before I'd done my chores - thanks Eddy ;-D

We hit a pocket of really cold air at Royalla, which lasted through Bredo and on to Cooma!!

Royalla

Bredo - always sounds like a name you need to have a cold to say properly  LOL!!

We stopped again at the lake at Nimitibel, still cool, but very picturesque, see:

Just before the Brown Mountain descent the landscape turns (thankfully?) from the seemingly unending rolling plains of the Monaro to granite boulder country.

Freya climbed some of the rocks, and took time out for a little meditation :)

Next stop was the Brown Mountain Lookout.

And then on to Bega to meet up with Matt and Tash, and their daughters India and Klancy.

We handed over our very special spangle OEG bantam chookie Micki, who is going to meet a lovely roo of the same colour - looking forward to some gorgeous chickens later this season :)  Micki is a very special chook, and we had cuddle time in the car before arriving at the picnic point on the Bega River.

Fantastic bird life on the river and surrounds, the swans seemed to be practising for the synchronised swimming event... albeit on dry land ;-D