Dorrigo National Park with Leti

I know it has been some time since my last update. Unfortunately just over a week ago we had the sad news that Myles' mother had become very ill after a 6 year fight with cancer - which has sapped my creative side.

We were lucky enough to have all of Myles' family stay with us over Christmas. An occasion that will stay with the whole family forever. Sylvia made a wonderful DVD of memories as a gift to her son which brought many a tear from the family and which will be watched over and over again!

A Visit from Leti

Leti in Dorrigo National Park

We love visitors often because my meaningful conversions are with the goats or sheep. Often talking to the dogs just involved food - and really I talk about that all the time with two legged beings anyway! Myles was away in Hong Kong and I was all alone discussing the laws of thermodynamics to Fritz. By Wednesday I was relieved to have a conversation with Leti, our Italian friend, who was traveling down to Sydney from Brisbane. Leti had been planning on moving to Australia but her circumstances had changed. We were storing her life's processions and Leti needed to send them back to Italy - be-it a smaller amount.

I picked Leti up from the bus station at 1am - struggling to stay awake past 9pm. The rain was pretty intense and we got soaked getting her bags into the car. After arriving home we chatted for a couple of hours until I begged to be allowed to go to sleep. Four hours later we had breakfast and went on a 4km walk. Leti thought she was lucky to see a couple of wallabies - later she saw 10's of them! Myles' plane arrived at about mid-day so we hitched up the wagon and went into town. George Negus was on his flight and I pointed him out to Leti. Myles came to the car looking a little wearing and smelling - bad. He told us he wasn't well and had swallowed his vomit twice on the flight - he then sprayed the plane toilet with his lunch. Mrs Negus had tried to use the toilet and but laughed after opening the door just after Myles exited it. She let the staff know that she would hold on and the toilet was then closed for the rest of the flight.

Our Lunch

Myles had a shower and caught up with news of Leti. We decided a trip to Dorrigo National Park would be a good idea for the next day. Lucky we used the 4WD as the track chosen to visit Dorrigo was mostly made of dirt. The waterfalls in Dorrigo were fantastic but not as good a the picnic at Never Never Picnic Park. Leti then lead us along the bush walking track finally stopping at the Crystal Waterfall - we needed to get back to Coffs so Leti could check out the beaches so the walk had to be quick - I was left sweaty and breathless when we finally got back to the car. A quick trip to the beach and then onto a party for our neighbours 45th birthday. What an exhasting day!

We sadly said goodbye to Leti the next day at the train station with the promise we would catch up again in Europe one day.