Boys Day Out

Nicole was at work on Friday, and not very happy about it. She had to get up at 5.30am... downer. If she was afraid her alarm clock wouldn't wake her up, she needn't have worried because Eloise woke up at 5.00am with this damn cold that's been pestering Nicole and her these past week or so.

We parked her in bed with me, and she was wriggling about a bit and wondering what was going on what with Mum wandering purposefully around the house at an unGodly hour, but she fall back to sleep again after a while, and didn't wake up until 9 o'clock when I woke her up looking at my watch, wondering what time it was.

So we footled around for a while breakfasting and such-like waiting for Mr Slimm to wake up, and just as I was about to get Eloise on the bike to walk the dogs so we could have a day out dog-free, His Highness woke up.

So Chris looking after Eloise, I frog marched the dogs around the brook and we set off, getting Eloise dropped off at Nursery at the frankly embarrassing hour of 11am.

Then down the Pacific Highway to sample the delights of Binna Burra, where we did mucho bushwalking, down to some "Quartz Caves" which weren't really caves and definitely not made of quartz, but were very sizeable indentations in a massive cliff towering over the side of a rainforest valley. The path led us along the edge of more cliffs, walking right next to the precipice with the strong wind that's been around for the past few days gusting away.

Chris said he wouldn't mind hiking to the bottom of the valley, so we found a path that led down there, and descended down, the wind dying around us as we lost altitude.

Eventually we found ourselves next to a little river which gathered in a beautiful pool in the forest, waterfalls and all. Very nice.