inland journey

Hi! I'm back. How are you? Well I've got lots of photo's to show you of our trip up north (I'll break it into a few posts though). We went to visit Mr You's family and to claim Mr You's nephew as our new God Son. Mr You's family live on the coast but this time we drove inland through the country side and took a couple of days doing it. We stopped often at quaint little country towns, and moseyed through craft shops and second hand stores finding serious bargains along the way.

The journey was amazing, watching the scenery change gradually before our eyes as it grew to include enormous skies and wide wide open spaces. The colours faded into dry earthy tones and the textures became brittle as we headed west. And there were surprises; a vivid rainbow, a firey sunset, a gushing waterfall...

A train joined us along part of the journey through the soft winding hills. Like a peaceful whale-like companion it would appear around a bend or from behind a hill, then dip away into a valley for a while. So many different coloured carriages linked together, and so very long that it's front and end disappeared into the horizon and weren't able to be seen.



That wasn't the only wildlife along the way. I've never seen so many varied creatures on one drive. Apart from the cows, sheep and horses that you expect to see in country paddocks, there was a kangaroo nibbling on grass in someone's unfenced back yard, a pair of rock wallabies in the mountains, so many slow tortoises trying to cross the roads (some had survived, others hadn't), a huge echidna munching on something by the side of the road, and a wombat too. Cockatoos, hawks and crows swirled above,
there was a shiny bright beetle on a mossy tree and thousands of flying ants that ended up smeared across our windscreen.
(if any of you from OS ever come to visit, we’ll definitely take that drive)

Slowly the soil darkened and the grass moistened into a lush vivid green. Trees left untouched in their natural state showed us how huge and grand they are supposed to be, and the rivers began to weave playfully around us as we headed back towards the coast. On the last leg on the journey, just before arriving at our destination, Mr You took us one last scenic loop, crossing a bridge over a river, then crossing back over further down the road, on a drive on ferry.

As the fields of sugar cane parted, and I caught my first glimpse of Mr You's parents house at the end of the track, a wave of familiarity drifted over me, and part 2 of our little trip began.


More photo's here, and more coming tomorrow.