Thursday, 3:00pm and Ken, Craig, Jules and Michael collect their kids from school, pack the car with lots of warm clothes and too much red wine - and head West - to "the farm".
"the farm" is about 3.5 hours North West of Sydney, in the Capartee Valley - a trully magnificent part of NSW that is under-rated and thankfully for us, under visited.
Craig has a 1/8th share in the farm, which consists of a 3 bedroom cabin, 500 acres, 50 cows, 1 sheep, 3 motorbikes and 1 quad bike. Just about the perfect recipe for a boys & kids weekend.
After an initial hic-cup in acomodation which involved an unplanned night in a motel it was all go - hearty breakfasts (it was frosty so we needed warming up), lots of feeding the cows, lots of 4WD trips around the farm, lots of quad biking and lots and lots of standing round the fire looking at the stars - which were amazing.
Given that each night the kids were in bed & asleep by 7:30pm, everyone ate well, all the kids made it back with 2 arms, 2 legs and no broken bones - I'd say it was a success.
The pictures give you a sense of stunning location, great weather (it really was a frost each morning!) and great fun we had.
Ken
The are no tracks, we walked along the boundary fence looking at the next farm - a mere 350 acres, for sale at $250,000.....
Maggie and Michael.
The 4WD's get good use - we have to find our own track through the fields - watching for rocks and Wombat holes as we go. My new Range Rover stayed out of the fields - too soon to get it scratched!
The kids were collecting cow bones when I took this photograph. Thankfully they dropped the bones to pose for the photo.
This is an approved method of transporting kids in Outback Australia.....honestly...it was perfectly safe.....
This is an approved method of transporting kids in Outback Australia.....honestly...it was perfectly safe.....
The morning view, mist in the valley, sun just coming up. It was about 2 degrees.
No comments:
Post a Comment