It's New Years Eve!!! The fam and I had a really great Christmas. Great meaning we went away for Christmas to Halls Gap, put up a branch for a Christmas tree, made our own bon bons, and got some carols cracking on the c.d player.
The day after Christmas Charles's girlfriend Alicja and I decided to go for a mountain climb to work off Christmas lunch. Asking the tourist information man for a walk much more challenging than the pinnacle (which was still closed a year on due to the fires) He choose for us Mt Stapleton which is next door to Mt Zero, for those of you who don't know. As we drove forty minutes out of halls gap and into the middle of no where it was hard for my over active imagination to stop drawing up some sort of scenario from Wolf Creek. Luckily when we arrived there were about three cars parked under trees. The walk/climb was 6.5km to the top and 6.5km to the bottom. It was a really challenging walk and quite scary nearing the top but well worth it. We started at 2pm and made it back down by 6.15pm which was pretty good considering the guy said it would take us 5.5 hours.
Yesterday to continue on with the theme, Charles, Alla and I walked to the top of Mt Arapiles, 1.5 to the summit and not nearly as challenging.
Last night as I lay in bed hand of ears, Warracknabeal was greeted with a fantastic thunder storm, and out our way (Dumbouy) we got '42' points in town '32'. It is currently still raining. And although we still need much more rain it is a good feeling to know the birds, wallabies etc are able to have a drink.
Moving to Melbourne in four weeks and taking a trip to Adelaide to see the fam before then.
DVDs’ should be posted out within the week!!!
Love Brooke Chook
The day after Christmas Charles's girlfriend Alicja and I decided to go for a mountain climb to work off Christmas lunch. Asking the tourist information man for a walk much more challenging than the pinnacle (which was still closed a year on due to the fires) He choose for us Mt Stapleton which is next door to Mt Zero, for those of you who don't know. As we drove forty minutes out of halls gap and into the middle of no where it was hard for my over active imagination to stop drawing up some sort of scenario from Wolf Creek. Luckily when we arrived there were about three cars parked under trees. The walk/climb was 6.5km to the top and 6.5km to the bottom. It was a really challenging walk and quite scary nearing the top but well worth it. We started at 2pm and made it back down by 6.15pm which was pretty good considering the guy said it would take us 5.5 hours.
Yesterday to continue on with the theme, Charles, Alla and I walked to the top of Mt Arapiles, 1.5 to the summit and not nearly as challenging.
Last night as I lay in bed hand of ears, Warracknabeal was greeted with a fantastic thunder storm, and out our way (Dumbouy) we got '42' points in town '32'. It is currently still raining. And although we still need much more rain it is a good feeling to know the birds, wallabies etc are able to have a drink.
Moving to Melbourne in four weeks and taking a trip to Adelaide to see the fam before then.
DVDs’ should be posted out within the week!!!
Love Brooke Chook
