visiting Uncle Marshall and exploring all around the place. The creek
was flowing with freezing cold water, and the girls had a ball throwing
in the rocks, looking at all the debris and damage that the floods left
behind. Rather amazing to see debris halfway up very tall trees and to
be standing 6-7 metres below that level!
The girls also really enjoyed raiding Uncle Marshall's fruit trees and
vegetable garden - I think Olivia must have eaten about half a kilo of
cherry tomatoes before we left, as well as a good chunk of the wild
growing spiky cucumber (that has to be seen to be believed - tastes
rather good though). We came away with pumpkins, eggplant, tomatoes,
cherry tomatoes, passionfruit, spiky cucumbers, mandarins, oranges and
lemons - all delicious. For someone who doesn't really like to cook,
Uncle Marshall has an amazing array of things growing! We even managed
to find a couple of late mulberries and had a look at all the buds on
the stonefruit trees ready for next summer....yummm!
Papa gave us a few insights into the old milking sheds, told stories of
things that the family used to get up to growing up, and kept us all
entertained throughout the morning - and managed to get the old farm ute
going so that we could have a drive around - thanks Papa!
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