We Live Among the Gumtrees

We've finally made it into a popular Australian Folk song. Where he sings of living among the gumtrees. We have four just outside the door...Living the dream.

So today...We slept in. Watched some tv, and were then told we weren't starting untill the afternoon. So we decided to take a stroll along the Olive Groves and to the river that borders the property. Or creek as it is known here.

As we arrived, and found the river to be little more than a trickle, we decided to walk up it trying to find a more substantial area. We met a cow...a scary cow.
The cow stared at us from a distance. It was like a horror movie, only with a cow. As we walked, trees would block its view of us, so it shifted and moved closer, so we backed off to a safe distance. We decied to give it another go and couldn't see the cow, untill Holly jumped and said it's on the other side of the creek.

The cow was staring at us from the other side of the fence and creek. Scary!!! Horror movie material.
So to get away from the cow, we walked up a hill to the Olive groves and were excited to see Kangaroos hopping around among the trees. We began discussing this movie we had seen about killer sheep and how the cow reminded us of the movie. Then a sheep starts running towards us from nowhere, stops right in front of us, breathing heavily and butting David. We decide to walk away and the sheep starts to follow us, bucking and butting as we go. Holly decides that the sheep needs to be petted and gives him a little pat on the head. So the sheep comes over to David, and decides that his butt needs to pet him. Needless to say we were both pretty scared of this crazy friendly sheep, and jumped over a barbed wire fence to escape the poor friendly sheep.

We then decided to go see the horses. They ran over to greet us and allowed us to pet them before running off to the other side of their enclosure.

We then got back to the farm to see Daryll who showed us some work that needed doing for the day. Weeding!!! We weeded the gardens around the house for the rest of the day. Daryll took us out and showed where we could go for a walk, or ride on the quad. We asked him if any of his animals were missing as we'd had an encounter with two of them in the morning. He said aaaahh, wild cows. They're fine. And Laamby, he's my pet. Thanks Daryll!

So we saw some beautiful yellow fields and dense bush forests, saw some lambs. One had been born the night before Daryll said. Very cute. Then as we drove on, we saw tons of Kangaroos all hopping around in the trees and trying to get away from the quad. One of the Kangaroos got himself stuck in the barbed wire and fell as he was trying to get away but shot off quickly.

After our exciting day we had some drinks on the veranda with Daryll while swapping stories and eating some freshly made bread with oil, and wished Daryll a good night.

Untill next time,

Holly & David